Why would economists claim ordinary people were getting much richer if they weren‘t?

„The answer, I think, has to be that you need to ask: ‚Well who are the people who say these things hanging out with? What is their social circle?‘ And if you‘re a finance professor at the University of Chicago, the people that you‘re likely to meet from the alleged real world are going to be people from Wall Street – for whom the past 30 years have, in fact, been wonderful.“