Pearl - October 23, 2026


“The American MIDDLE CLASS Is Being PRICED OUT of Everything” @NickJFuentes @JustPearlyThings

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“If You Can't Afford a DIVORCE, You Can't Afford Marriage” @JustPearlyThings “Race, IQ and Society… This Debate Gets EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL” @NickJFuentes @JustPearlyThings

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00:00:00.000 you talking about how your dad was um a toll or your grandpa was a toll like yes talking about to
00:00:05.520 the elitists or whatever right because i was thinking about i think middle class white men
00:00:10.640 are going to be affected the most because yeah rich people are going to find their private schools
00:00:15.520 um like i would guess my catholic school i went to is still mostly white um you know highland park
00:00:22.080 in texas is pretty white like they're still going to be able be able to afford the white areas but
00:00:26.880 But it's the middle class that is one going to get middle class white men are going to get exed out of marriage because they can't afford it because that's for the rich now, too. 0.72
00:00:34.940 Right.
00:00:35.100 And then on top of that, the like the places like where we grew up are just going to be for the rich.
00:00:41.460 Yeah. Well, yeah. Then no one talks about that.
00:00:43.880 There's this great book from 30 years ago by this guy named Kaplan.
00:00:48.860 And he says the book is called The Coming Anarchy.
00:00:51.340 and he says to paint a picture of the future imagine you're inside a limousine and it's a
00:00:57.960 luxury limo car and you're driving through just like the ghetto and it's just crime and homeless
00:01:03.920 people and chaos he said and there's this bifurcated world where the inside's luxurious
00:01:08.860 the outside is chaos he said that's the world that's the whole world every country brazil
00:01:15.200 america europe asia it's all going to be like this if you're rich you're going to live in a
00:01:20.160 gated community. Your kids are going to go to private school. You're literally going to
00:01:23.800 helicopter from your work to your house and fly over all the scum and decay, which is what they 0.93
00:01:30.160 now do in Miami. In Miami, they're building like helipads on all the buildings and docks
00:01:36.160 next to the river and on the ocean. So they can literally fly above or yacht around all the chaos
00:01:43.660 and dysfunction. And if you're not in that ultra wealthy top 1%, whatever, you have to live in
00:01:51.520 Escape from New York, you have to live in Mad Max. And so yeah, the squeeze is on.