I remember watching Hanauer’s talk. Watched again from that 2:50 mark.
It’s rare for me to say “not a thing with which I disagree …,” but, yeah: “A rising tide lifts all ships” is simply another chapter in The Big Lie, and could not have less in common with the trickle down that we have yet to repudiate.
You may find part of another SD MW discussion interesting. I’ll humbly point you to one of my contributions:
I also think it isn’t too far afield to talk about tax policy (as Hanuer does) that contributes to this clusterfuckery:
I try to avoid hyperbole, but I don’t think it’s insanely hyperbolic to say that we haven’t gone so awfully far from the plantation mentality in this country.
One of the primary arguments that the South asserted in the runup to the Civil War was that ending the Peculiar Institution would be devastating to their economy.
Which evokes the mellifluous, dulcet tones of the world’s smallest violin.