We Fucked Over The Young For The Old

And, really at its base, that is how politics is supposed to work.

Here is a pretty good TED Talk from Scott Galloway, posted semi-recently:

You have to take a chunk of this with a graint of salt. This is a rich 50-something guy railing against the system he benefited from. He’s got some good suggestions, but we have seen this movie before. Tech bros do it all the time. I like guys like Tristan Harris, but they got rich from places like Google, and then go and rant about the industry that made them rich. At some point, it is bullshit.

If nothing else, Galloway has a lot of charts and graphs (44 slides total!) in this video and you can reference them to pull various points about the decline of American civilization, or America’s potential “failure to launch.”

This is a complicated issue that creates a lot of misguided debate, so I can try to relatively simplify it for anyone who might stumble across this: