I think it was more going back to who i was as a child. I had grown up in a working class community, surrounded where the greatest aspiration for many,. and i don't this in a dmeaning way, was to be part of for h and raise steer or pigs. And so it was, in many ways, coming back to what i knew as a child in wall street. Was, for me, the weird entry into this world that i didn't know existed at the time. In terms of the expectations i had about what i wold find, i thing that surprises me the most is how narrow minded we are when we think in a very rational scientific way.
In this episode of Infinite Loops, we spoke with Chris Arnade, author of the bestselling book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Backrow America. We discussed:
- Why Chris left Wall Street to document ‘back row America’.
- How Wall Street has changed over the years
- Why Chris’s work triggers certain crowds of people
- The importance of McDonald's to American communities
- The lessons he’s learned from traveling around America’s lower-income communities.
- And more…
If you’d like to order Chris’ book, you can find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/dp/0525534733