The peasants of America need to get louder.

The bottom 90% of Americans hold 32.7% of all U.S. wealth (FRED, Q3 2024). It's not because we're lazy, and it won't be solved by picking ourselves up by the bootstraps.

When the majority of freedom's luxuries are economically out of reach, we are not free.

I'm a regular, unwealthy, born-and-raised working American who was blessed (or cursed, depending on your opinion) with a love of learning. I'm one of the weirdos who actually enjoys news & politics, had training in media literacy, and was even in the top 0.1% of listeners worldwide on Spotify for news podcasts last year. I'm REALLY plugged in, but I'm not a pundit.

The Brie-fing was founded to share the perspective of unwealthy Americans. This is our mission.

At the heart of my work is three core beliefs:

1. America is not great, America's people are great.
2. Our labor is vastly undervalued.
3. Dear Royals: the economics ain't trickling. Fix the tap.

And guiding this work is three core values:

1. Integrity
2. Transparency
3. Justice

We ALL have something to contribute. I hope you'll subscribe so we can get louder together.

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