Your Daily Gist — April 12, 2026

Hi Quai, welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! We are dissecting a world where the Product Manager role is facing an extinction event, while a tiny slice of the population is now carrying the entire weight of the American economy on their backs. That economic weight is specifically sixty-three cents. For every dollar spent in the U.S. right now, sixty-three cents is coming from the top twenty percent of earners. We aren't just looking