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Chasing the American Dream at Outback Steakhouse (Classic)
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Date:2025-04-14 10:43:00
*This episode originally aired on September 26th, 2023
*How often do you hang out with people in a different socioeconomic bracket than you? And where do you meet and congregate? Economist Maxim Massenkoff, and his co-author Nathan Wilmers, looked at cell phone location data to figure out where people with vastly different incomes commune together. Today on the show, Maxim discusses his research, and Darian and Alexi head to a restaurant to try and witness some of this class mixing in action.
Related Episode: The Secret to Upward Mobility: Friends
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