And there is real, justified anger over living costs in America. No, overpriced urban housing and health care and child care and college tuition haven’t made America’s middle class poor. But they’ve made Americans less rich than they ought to be. Most of the increase in costs came in earlier decades, and Americans are just now getting around to being mad. A little bit of exaggeration in service of that anger isn’t necessarily a terrible thing. Hopefully the rage can be turned against the regulatory and permitting regimes that are the real barrier to cheaper services, rather than diverted towards immigrants, tech companies, and other red herrings.