The K-Shaped Decade with Matt Borka

About this episode

The episode discusses the K-shaped economy and the perception of wealth disparity with guest Matt Borka.

“Why does life feel poorer when the economy looks rich?” That question drives our talk with Hungarian-born creator and entrepreneur Matt Borka, who has lived and worked across the West, Eastern Europe, and Asia and who tracks real-world conditions through labor data, incentives, and what he sees inside marketing and online business. We start with the growing sense of Western decline and quickly land on a hard-to-ignore pattern: a K-shaped economy where the top captures upside while everyone e...

People in this episode

Host: C. Derick Varn

Guest: Matt Borka

Topics covered

• economy
• labor data
• Western decline
• K-shaped economy
• marketing
• online business

Keywords

• K-shaped economy
• wealth disparity
• labor data
• marketing
• online business
• Western decline

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Hungary, Western decline, Eastern Europe, Asia

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