The middle class is the true engine of prosperity.
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The alternative he & @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social are building is called Market Humanism—the idea that markets are tools for solving human problems & can work for everyone when designed right. "Comically ambitious," he admits. But someone has to say it. buff.ly/kZ7DZPC
@nickhanauer.bsky.social has built companies, backed others & spent decades watching how the economy actually works from the inside. His conclusion: trickle-down economics isn't just ineffective—it's a story told to justify policy choices that have cost working families t r i l l i o n s.
Five programs designed to fix dangerously insufficient infrastructure in the communities that need it most. Cut. All of them. In one bill. That’s not fiscal responsibility. That’s a choice about whose safety counts.
76% of Americans now name the cost of living as their top economic worry, up from 58% a year ago (CNN/SSRS, May 2026).
An 18-point jump in 12 months isn't people getting gloomier. It's people noticing that the rules governing prices, wages & housing aren't built to work *for* them.
Middle-out economics flips the logic: a middle class that can afford things isn't the reward for a strong economy. It's what makes one.
On his new channel, Class Traitor, he makes the case for a different economics—one where a thriving middle class is the engine of growth, not the byproduct of it. Watch: youtu.be/qa6GjNzxjHE?...
“Although the neoliberal paradigm has taken heavy fire over the past decade from academics, activists & populist politicians, it has proved stubbornly hard to eradicate & its flawed assumptions still shape large swaths of economic policy making" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
That's @nickhanauer.bsky.social's argument in a new @newrepublic.com interview. Trickle-down wasn't just unfair—it was bad economics. GDP growth roughly halved after neoliberal policies took hold. The trickle was coming any day now!
A new @epi.org/@laborlab.bsky.social report puts a number on something economists have long argued shapes wage outcomes more than almost any other structural variable: employer spending on union avoidance.
What if the economic ideas shaping American policy for the past 50 years were never actually right? Not "could use some tweaks" but literally 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 at the foundation about how people behave, how markets work, and what makes an economy grow.
