Apparently, American innovation and capitalism is destroying us. On Tuesday morning’s episode of CBS Mornings Plus, hosts Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz had a painfully out of touch conversation with Evan Osnos of The New Yorker– a magazine known for their in-depth commentary on real, pressing issues, like the lack of gay children's books in American preschools– about his latest book, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches On The Ultrarich.
Osnos detailed how America was wealthier than ever before, but only a small percentage of Americans actually held this wealth, which was somehow a problem that should be causing uproar everywhere. According to him, today’s America was somehow worse than the Gilded Age.
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