Well , there are two possibilities either he lived through it all , or he lived through the moment of the crash but died afterwards and it simply took him more than 10 minutes to die . Whichever one is the case , we can be certain that he did live through the moment of the crash and at least 10 minutes past that . <| sep |> You mean the ones who used to be on top of the pyramid ? Back in the 1950 s , when they had nonwhites , gays , and women properly contained in the layers below them ? It ' s not about absolute wealth , it ' s about relative status . Those rustbelters accurately feel that their relative status has declined severely in the last two generations . Their diagnosis isn ' t necessarily wrong . Where they go wrong is in thinking it ' s a zerosum game , and the country is definitively worse when they have to share their layer of the pyramid with people who used to be below them . Further , they also get it completely wrong when thinking about solutions .