Freddy speaks to Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, in which he coins the term 'luxury beliefs'. These are certain beliefs held by a section of the elite which confirm and elevate the status of those who hold them. As a consequence, they can cause harm to those lower down the social strata. Is Donald Trump the antidote to America’s ‘luxury beliefs’ complex?

// CHAPTERS
00:00 – What are luxury beliefs?
05:00 – New class war: how luxury beliefs put the rich in opposition to 'the vulgarians'
09:05 – 'Common sense is like air, the higher you go the thinner it gets'
12:15 – The international nature of luxury beliefs
14:55 – Donald Trump: is he the antidote to America's luxury beliefs complex?
21:50 – How America's leisure class is propped up by elite institutions
23:12 – Who are the American middle class? And why the military is an engine for social mobility.

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