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Zohran, Downward Mobility, and Rage From Doing Everything Right
from The Real Katie Porter & A Special Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #466 · #466
3 min
Tim discusses how even people who 'did everything right'—good schools, good jobs—are miserable and broke, contrasting it with his own history of dropping out and doing cocaine at 14, and argues this frustration fuels both far-left and far-right radicalization.
- Tim jokes about getting calls asking what he's doing while picking the next president.
- Zohran represents natural left populism emerging from generational rage over downward mobility.
- The super-rich have driven the economy off a cliff even for people who did everything right.
- He describes dating people from JP Morgan who had 57 interviews but are having heart attacks at 25.
- They went to the right school, got the right internship, moved to the right city, took the right job—and are still miserable and desperate to prove their worth.
- Tim had no healthcare until five years ago and no money, but never expected anything because he never did things right.
- College graduates face a terrible job market, can't buy houses, and radicalize online asking why they should care about Hitler or Stalin.
- Anger in America can only take the form of Katie Porter, or the country gets destroyed.