New York, the 1980s, and the World It Created
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Historian Dylan Gottlieb discusses the impact of the yuppie takeover of New York in the 1980s on modern America and its inequality.
New York in the 1980s was a city in convulsion — deindustrializing, gentrifying, financializing — and the young urban professionals who flooded its trading floors and law firms weren't just a cultural moment. They were the architects of the America we live in now. Historian Dylan Gottlieb explains how the yuppie takeover of New York wrote the blueprint for today's inequality — and why we're still living inside it. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe
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