How We Got Here with NLW

How We Made the Wrong Things Cheap

November 2, 2026·52 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Since 2000, TVs have gotten 98% cheaper while hospital stays, college tuition and child care have more than doubled. Here's how that happened, and why so many Americans now think the economy is rigged against them.Read the Companion Essay - https://howwegothere.com/episodes/the-wrong-abundance/Listen to Ep. 1: How Tech Lost America - https://howwegothere.com/episodes/how-tech-lost-america/***How We Got Here with NLW is the deep-dive story of how today's most important trends, events, and phenomena came to be. New episodes every Monday.Think I missed something? Tell me: ⁠https://howwegothere.com/counterpoint - ⁠The best responses become a Counterpoint follow-up episode.Follow, rate, and review the show:Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990⁠Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV⁠Connect with How We Got Here:YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@HWGHpodcast⁠X: ⁠https://x.com/hwghshow⁠LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/howwegothere/⁠Also from NLW: The AI Daily Brief, the daily AI news podcast: ⁠https://aidailybrief.ai

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