As Adam tried to placate the crowd of janitorial workers outside WeWork headquarters, he told them that he, too, had come to New York “chasing the American dream” and “wanting to change the world.” He said that “when I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter’s room,” ignoring the fact that most of the cleaners might still be living in similarly cramped situations while the Neumanns chose between their multiple vacation homes.
