No, Main Street millionaires didn’t steal the economy. They are the economy

I recently read The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There by economists Eric Zwick and Owen Zidar, and I was left wondering something. Have the book’s own authors done the same?
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