Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why Ordinary People Have Less and Less Power with Joel Kotkin" video.

The problem is that equity is about resentment and a hunger for power. When the proletariat decided it was going to be OK with a decent life, the (power-hungry) leadership of the revolutionary movements decided to abandon the interests of the poor, and weaponize race instead. This meant that the old apparatus for looking after the interests of the poor has been largely abandoned, or cannibalized for the new racialist machine.
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@Alex Mit Several more problems crop up. Run-of-the-mill rationalist intellectuals will constantly underrate the appeal of familiar common culture or a "social fabric", because such things are difficult or impossible to quantify. The process of voting, which is at some level is intuitive and thus measures at a "gut level" everything, not just what the technocrats are taking into account with their calculations. This means that there will frequently be a discrepancy between the results of elections, and what the technocrats think the results of the elections ought to be. The technocrats' current fashion is to chalk up all these things they can't measure to majoritarian "bigotry", speaking disparagingly about it, and looking into it no further. Which is deeply ironic, because they're disparaging something they do not understand (and don't want to understand) and therefore hate and fear, instead basing their (unfounded) opinions in no small part on popular racial prejudice. There's a word for that, of course.
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"Public intellectuals don't exist anymore" The ones who toe the line required in universities today, have discredited themselves.
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"What we have achieved in the modern world, is that if you work hard and develop a good set of skills, you could afford to have a family." In other words, we're losing ground. Even peasants in the Middle Ages could afford to have a family.
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