WHAT DAVID BROOKS MISSED: “The middle class have sent their children into fields like real estate and finance in part because that’s where the jobs are. That might be a good thing or a bad thing (the economic period of 2001-2008 leaned very heavily upon those sectors for growth), but that’s how it is. There is an economic motive for some of these social changes.” Yeah, not a lot of steelworker jobs out there.