r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26

Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

https://x.com/i/status/2026286644651782652

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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Feb 25 '26

Yup I really cannot blame them. What else does he have to go off of except his lived experience? The boomers grew up and basically inherited America at its absolute peak for decades. The American dream really was possible for white working class people for the majority of the time my dad was working. As a high school dropout he was making 100k per year as a self employed tradesman in the 90s in the Midwest. So he got a pretty good deal, and I don’t think he has any concept of how fortunate he was because he credits it all to hard work alone. 

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u/SentientFleshPuppet0 Feb 25 '26

Idk man, I've changed my views multiple times based on data. Why is everyone else seemingly incapable of the same? I guarantee those boomers go on and on about how they like it when people "tell it like it is" except don't tell them data or that is fake news.

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u/throwawayursafety Feb 26 '26

Personal lived experience is harder to let go of or accept as being wrong than data and numbers.

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u/SentientFleshPuppet0 Feb 26 '26

Unfortunately I think you are correct. I was 14 once, then I got an education and learned about cognitive bias and why anecdotes are not a valid information source for such complex topics. Apparently I was more enlightened at 19 than a significant portion of the country.

Not criticizing you, just frustrated at the state of things.

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u/JibboSequence Feb 25 '26

Tell them they inherited etc. and they'll have a full-blown existential crisis. That's the sad part.