PA median income $52K/year
McCormick noted that the median income in Pennsylvania is $52,000 a year, underscoring the economic anxiety felt by working families.
Snapshot · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner
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Jun 10, 2026
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Fixing wealth concentration in the US
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McCormick warns that rising wealth inequality will destroy capitalism unless voluntarily addressed. He proposes Invest in America accounts and school choice as Carnegie-style private solutions. Friedberg pushes back with a smaller-government thesis.
Wealth Concentration: We're Going to Lose Capitalism
McCormick is blunt: the last 10 years were the greatest decade in human history for asset owners, and a disaster for the median Pennsylvania worker earning $52,000 a year. He says capitalism will be lost unless wealthy people voluntarily direct capital toward opportunity for others — not through government, but through choice-based programs like Invest in America accounts.
The Government Less Framing: Does Washington Have It Backwards?
Friedberg poses the empirical case that more government spending makes markets less efficient, more expensive, and less accessible — the opposite of what Congress believes. He says every time he visits DC he leaves unhappy because every person in Congress thinks the answer is always 'do more.' Neither senator fully disagrees.
Graham Platner: What A Nazi Tattoo Tells Us About American Politics
A candidate with a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest is polling viably in Maine. Fetterman calls it an outgrowth of backlash to extreme partisanship — and warns that when mainstream Democrats shrug off this kind of candidate, something has gone deeply wrong. McCormick adds that the Democratic Party's lurch toward Marxism and antisemitism validates and mirrors this extremism.
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