How Cheap Sh*t KILLED The Middle Class

The price we paid for low quality goods.

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Chapters

00:00 Start Here
01:12 Chapter 1: America Before the Middle Class
03:20 Chapter 2: The Engineering of the Middle Class
05:51 Chapter 3: America’s New Addiction
07:13 Chapter 4: America’s New Business Model
08:30 Chapter 5: The Service Economy
10:11 Chapter 6: Propping the Middle Class Up
11:58 Chapter 7: The False Middle Class
13:09 Chapter 8: When the Bill Finally Came Due
14:51 Chapter 9: Where Do We Go From Here?


In this video I break down how cheap goods quietly reshaped the American middle class. For decades we traded stable jobs, strong wages and long-term security for lower prices and constant convenience. At first it felt like progress, but behind the scenes the foundations that once supported millions of families were slowly collapsing.

I walk through the rise of American manufacturing, the shift toward global competition, the rise of cheap imports, the fall of stable jobs, and the service economy that replaced them. I also explore how debt, credit and mass consumption created the illusion of a healthy middle class even as savings disappeared and wages stalled.

This story is about the price we paid for choosing what is cheap instead of what is sustainable. It explains how we got here and what the real cost of convenience has been for ordinary Americans. If you care about work, money and the future of the middle class, this is a video you need to see.