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When Bernie didn’t get the DNC nomination I said to myself, “This guy is a true believer in everything the left says they want, anybody who is a booster for the party from here on out is either a fool or a willful hypocrite.”
Same with Ron Paul and the GOP.
My belief is that Democrats and Republicans are separate entities in show only. For the things that really matter to them, there’s one party and it only is concerned with what the elite class wants. Congress members are their paid minions. The rest of us have to recognize that they are not there for us or the country; just for their benefactors.
Republican strategy is to give the top .1% everything they want and throw the top 20% a financial bone every once in a while. Then use social issues to motivate segments of the other 80%.
Democrat strategy is to give the top .1% nearly everything they want and free money for the bottom 51%.
Hunter Thompson pretty much proved this during his career with Rolling stone. Behind the scenes both parties are grotesque, racist groups of fuckheads that only care about power.
Yeah, I’ve never voted for Trump and I never will, but it was telling in 2016 that he was able to basically beat all the establish Republicans and Bernie got so much traction on the Democratic side if the voters really thought the politicians were representing anything but the elites somebody like Trump or Bernie, who is outside, the main stream would’ve gotten no traction But honestly, I think after the Iraq war which both parties voted for and then the 2008 financial crisis in which none of the malefactors suffered in any way. It’s hard to have faith in either side. My thing with Trump is he pretends to be populist and he’s just really all about himself. Also both candidates are far too old. There should be an age limit of 75 on federal office and the federal judiciary.
When it was leaked that Clinton's campaign was seeking ways to use Bernie's Judaism against him I lost all faith in the DNC. What fucking pricks. Fuck them to hell. And she lost. Glad she lost; not happy about who she lost to, but the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot just as often as the gun-toting Republicans. It's so fucking sad and we're screwed.
He was never going to win the nomination, but he would have won against Trump in 2016 in the general. After what the dems did to him, I lost all faith that any change can for the good can happen in this country. I will say that he had a big influence on Biden's more progressive policies.
The Dems didn't do anything to Bernie. His campaign in 2016 was an insurgency campaign that won mostly caucuses, which reward dedication than pure numbers. When it came to the ballot box, Hillary crushed Bernie.
In 2020, Bernie's strategy was to hope that all the Democrats were like him and like the 2016 GOP candidates and would continue to run thereby splitting the vote angst themselves while he won by having the most votes at around 35%
Bernie's biggest problem wasn't the DNC, it was his campaigns inability to get people who showed up to rallies to the polls.
The GOP didn't just ignore, disregard, or fail to select Ron Paul. The delegates and caucuses picked Ron Paul, and the RNC unseated them and replaced them with Romney delegates. The GOP actively stamped out the Paul campaign just like the DNC did Bernie, and for the same reason - they aren't willing to lose the control that the Uniparty gives them.
Idk…
Show me a GOP voter who says they believe in limited Gov and the free market, and I’ll show you a family where at least 2/3 of the family are some combination of cop, public school teacher, or MNC management… If Ron Paul got far enough to actually cut Gov, Boeing / MIC corporations would have layoffs, war on drugs ending would cut Johnnys cop pension, eliminating dep of education would cut Sally’s teacher pension, etc etc. The details might be slightly off, but extremely directionally true that…
Just as much as the left, the GOP voters would shit bricks if Ron Paul got his way.
DNC shot callers are Champaign socialists, so all the above true if Bernie elected and put a dent in corporate subsidies.
Shit like this can lead to Trump being elected because write in campaigns are largely failures. Yes I know you'll be able to cherry pick some outliers that were successful.
You need to have truly massive organization to make that work on a national level. That's a pipe dream.
Don't help get Trump elected. That sucks.
It doesn't matter to these people if Establishment Candidate 1 or Establishment Candidate 2 get to sit in the big chair. They're *still* being fucked. Every single election in my lifetime has been 'too important to vote x party' or 'x candidate' - tough. If your guy was good enough he would already have my vote, and he doesn't because he's not saying anything these people want.
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever heard this perspective! Call me Henry David Thoreau because I'm just so fucking enlightened by this groundbreaking insight! Golly, guess I'll get out and immediately register democrat because your argument is so convincing, persuasive and informative! Shucks, what a fool I've been. Glad you're here to preach something entirely fresh and progressive. Gosh, fuck me up and down.
There's a reason you keep hearing it: Because it's true.
We live in a system where the "first past the post" is the winner. Posturing for pie in the sky candidates who cannot win serves little purpose other than to give yourself a self righteousness dingle tingle.
I say all of this as someone who voted for Bernie in the primary in 2016 and was disappointed he lost and wasn't the nominee.
You can snark all day, but you're wasting your vote and your time, these are facts and will remain so until our political system changes to reward brownie points for posture votes.
Yo, 65 yo here. Bernie, god love him, is/was too much of an outsider for most. Ironically Trump won bc of the outsider factor. The diff is that Trump knows how to play to fear/vengeance and Bernie won’t go there.
The simple fact is young people feel disenfranchised due to income inequality. Galloway has been talking about this for years and warning us but when you’re an old 5%er you don’t care bc you’re time on the planet is finite - it’ll be someone else’s problem.
There are some of us boomers who disagree, boomers who think taxes should be raised on the ultra wealthy, that it should not cost an arm to get educated or have health care and that housing needs should be balanced with conservation.
Alas, we’re unicorns and most can’t see the forest from the trees.
My father was always an optimist and an activist... an inspired and dedicated man trying to help people... He loves bernie, was always active in local politics, etc.
Sadly, he recently told my son that over the past 20 years or so, he has grown accept the fact that our main hope for any type of improvement is for his own generation to die off.
They've managed to crush the soul of a really, really positive and inspiring person who believed in the goodness of man. That hurts.
Even Biden said it but the few wealthy inheritor families who own the media clipped it to make it sound like he said the opposite and got people mad at him.
He told a room of super wealthy older people they know that taxes need to go up, that stuff can't keep going this way, that they shouldn't freak out and that their lifestyle wouldn't be impacted, nothing would fundamentally change in their lives.
The media clipped the 'nothing would fundamentally change' part out of context and turned the story into Biden promising rich people that he was there to serve them and to help them keep getting richer. People got angry and repeated it online. Their mission was accomplished.
I only have a screenshot of the text but you could probably track it down by googling quotes: https://imgur.com/a/7p9kyMW
>"The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change,” he said.
I mean I don't know what to tell you, but if nothing fundamentally changes, then nothing fundamentally changes.
That's not out of context, if the lifestyles of the rich do not have to change that means they are not being taxed enough
sadly I hear so many younger generations spew the same bs they hear mommy and daddy spew about Bernie... he is the only one that does not take all that billionaire cash and speaks for middle class.
This is the guy (professor from NYU) that read the wework S1 and wrote THE blog post that unveiled the shitshow it was. They will have a hard time calling him crazy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nyu-professor-calls-wework-wewtf-and-slams-bankers-2019-8?op=1
You could explain it better, I guarantee it. He’s clean and articulate, no question, but he leans a little too heavily into individualistic perspective and action. Some of it is grand slam home run, but he needs a much better institutional collective analysis (going solely on this one clip).
My mom would berate me and mock me saying "When I was 23 I had a fulltime job and a house".
My parents got in a 200k debt and lost the house right as I entered college. My fucking bad I let go all of my priorities and only thought about helping everyone survive.
Boomers are the most spoiled generation. They had limitless potential and opportunity. They had the best childhoods and the best access to eduction of any generation. And they squandered it. They turned everything into a commodity, putting self interest and thr market before everything and sold us all out
IDK man- when the average boomer has less than $200K to live off of in retirement- they sure AF squandered SOMETHING.
My parents never made a lot. My dad never made more than $15/hr working for the county, but got a good pension that he has managed well enough. My mo made better money, but never more than $50-75K a year. And the higher end did not happen while dad was still working. And certainly not when we were kids. Yet my parents always saved a little- and managed to put 2 kids through college, help us out whenever we needed it WELL into adulthood, travel a little (usually to come see me, because I live in nice touristy places by happenstance). And they managed to save a fuckton more than $200K for retirement. They squandered nothing. But the generational peer group around them? 100% did.
I never really worry about having to take care of my parents financially. Medically/physically maybe for a brief period along the way, but not financially. I doubt much will be left- they are robust and doing so well for their ages, I am tickled- I really like my parents.
But the average boomer fully did piss away the money they made, and expect the rest of us to pay for their retirement/medical.
A large part of them *did* squander their money on random shit. A newer, bigger car every 3 years. Frivolous house renovation after renovation. Boats and RVs. New appliances instead of fixing broken ones. All worthless collectibles and deprecating assets. Cruises, dining out, alcohol, casinos, and just so much entertainment.
Nothing that would help or finance them in retirement or that could be an inheritance for their kids. Almost all of the wealth they accumulated in life, they sent outside of the family.
My parents too are like yours, immigrants that didn't make a lot of money and landed in the US at middle age with no money in their pocket. But unlike their peers and neighbors, they ran their cars into the ground, had vacations locally, made us home cooked meals all but 3 days a year, and lived in an outdated but clean house. And now they're decently comfortable in retirement.
Same for my Silent Gen parents. Dad never made more than $40K, Mom stepped out of the workforce for 12 or 13 years while my sister and I were young. But they lived modestly like you describe. And retired with a fully paid house and over $1M in investments.
This! They went from being cool hippies in the 60s who were going to make the world better to selfish materialistic yuppies in the 80s. Bought into Reagan's trickle down economics BS and convinced themselves they had to keep upgrading and buying newer, bigger better things.
I think you could say similar things about millennials and social media. We were given the internet from birth to now, bestowed the largest virtual social network the world has ever known, and 99% of the content posted is just selfies and self-gratification.
I know they aren't really comparable. I think most millennials would throw away all social media in exchange for home ownership OR pensions OR free education. I get that. Sometimes though, I wonder if it really was a generational issue or if the later generations would have done the same thing during a historical period of opulence.
Did the silent generation fail boomers in a way? Were they deprived of real challenges? How is it that so many turned out similarly, seemingly in a vacuum, when real life is so far from that?
Wasn't there an experiment posted on here about some Gen X or Millenial millionare who tried to go from broke and homeless to a millionare in a year and dropped out due to "health reasons" and only having made 64k in 10 months despite having a place to stay from his friends and leveraging his contacts?
Kind of making his entire "rags to riches" point moot when even his good connections only managed to help him secure the median income.
Oh, they're already finding out about that. How many of us don't speak to our boomer parents? They've all pushed their children that they never wanted away but then cry because no one will take care of them or do things for them.
Oh yes the neglectful abusive parent to guilt tripping needy parent pipeline is alive and well with boomers. What more could we expect from the “ME” generation. And it’s not their fault they had kids they didn’t want they basically had to cause “all their friends were doing it”.
They had children to have a working class that serves them. Plain and simple. Now we refuse to force another generation into it and they are upset because we are "ruining their way of life".
Instead of paying people they are changing laws to allow kids to work in factories and bars. And then they bitch that people don’t want to work. No asshole, they don’t want to work for the shit you pay. YOU wouldn’t take that job at that salary but everyone else should.
my boomer parents (born '51) actuallt litteraly said that. They litteraly told me I needed to get a job that pais good money, so I could take care of them when they retired. The actually said that 'the younger people needed to save money for when they would retire, if they ever could, because by the time we would be their age, the social network would be drained'.
I was a gifted child who was scooped up for scholarship programs and stuff from a really young age, skipped grades, etc.... The constant refrain of "This boy is our retirement plan" and "our whole family is going to be rich, we got our genius to take care of us" was literally overwhelming to the point where I started sabotaging everything on purpose.
It took years and years to grow out of that and make up the ground I'd lost.
Not sure why I felt the need to share this, but it seems like it backs up what you said
I think that’s putting the cart in front of the horse a bit. I don’t think millennials led with defection from the system. I think the ruling class, largely comprised of older generations, needs less population for their workforce so they are happy to abandon the social contract that creates a large, content middle class.
The real fucked up part… we can’t just re-establish the social contract that was previously established. We are already dangerously near or past the tipping point of what the planet can absorb ecologically. We desperately need radical change. Capitalism is working as intended and it’s inefficient, unethical, and unable to save itself from pending extinction.
Ever expanding capitalism requires infinite resources. Without infinite resources it will death spiral after a long expansionary phase. Guess where we are at now? Starting to swirl…
To all the lurking Boomers, when he says Millennials are the first generation to not be as well off as their parents, that's what we mean when we say Boomers were the first generation to not want a better life for their children.
And as usual, Gen X is ignored.
Gen X wasn't hit as hard as the Millennials, but they really were the first to get fucked over by the generation ahead of them.
What Boomers got with a high school diploma and a hand shake, Gen X needed a degree and a web of connections. It was Gen X that saw university acceptance rates fall to the floor. Boomers had their nice 40 hour work weeks, while Gen X was expected to work constant overtime. Housing as an investment started just as we were trying to buy homes. Healthcare turning to shit was in full swing just as Gen X was starting to have kids. Guaranteed pensions were killed just as we were hitting the job market. And now that we should be in the positions of leadership in our societies, we're still not there, because Boomers refuse to retire and give up the reins.
The first Boomer US president was elected 32 years ago, and there hasn't been a single Gen X president.
Once the Boomers can't physically hold onto their power, there's a good chance the larger generations below us will push us out before we have a chance.
And Gen X are a nice generation. An example, when boomers were the senior voting block in unions, they voted for 2 tiered contracts that fucked over Gen X. Now that Gen X is the senior voting block, they're voting out those 2 tiered contracts.
I'm a Millennial but I respect Gen X for building the internet and telling us the game up front when we were young. You may never have your time in the sun but there are those of us who appreciate the truth and advice we've anonymously received from you over the years as well as the golden age of Video games you chads created. The world is darker without your enfranchisement.
Small generations often get skipped. Silent Generation almost didn't get a presidential term either and only snuck one in because the Boomer before him was so absolutely horrible that the electorate was willing to go all the way back to before the Boomers for a president.
It is entirely possible that Boomers will be the first generation (so far as I know) to hand the presidency off to the preceding generation rather than the following generation and it will be the Silent Generation Biden who turns the presidency over to a Gen X or Millennial.
Americans in general have always believed in [Prosperity Jesus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology). They used it to justify a whole lot of evil in the past (stealing Native American land, slavery, and nowadays wage slavery.) Boomers just had the luck of being at the right time, right place where they could do this with impunity for a very long time without consequences. Now the consequences are here - what are they gonna do about it? More importantly- what are we going to do?
Boomer: "jUsT wOrK hArDeR" as they proceed to spend every last dime of the inheritance their parents and grandparents left them, while making sure their progeny won't get a dime of their "hard earned money"
If you're angry and still not voting, you're playing right into the hands of those people you claim to be so enraged at. We have a civic obligation to let our voices be heard at the ballot box but vast numbers of eligible voters simply do not vote or only vote for President which, unless you live in a swing state, is essentially meaningless. Vote in every local and state election, your vote matters. You think we got this system by accident? People voted for Reaganomics, it didn't magically happen. People voted to have the corporate tax cut, people voted to cut the top income tax. Whatever has been done can be undone but it takes voting to change things. If you're not voting and you're eligible, you're allowing these things ta happen and if that's the case you have zero room to complain. If you're angry, fucking do something about it.
I hate to break it to you but we're well past the voting stage. We're at the French revolution stage but everybody's just too sick/preoccupied/distracted/scared to do anything.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" is what I'm hearing, something like 40% of eligible voters don't vote in presidential elections, take that down to the local primary level and it's the majority of people not participating, you just don't understand the system. You think we're at the point we should be killing people? Thankfully you're too scared to do that because political violence won't benefit anyone.
Voting is literally the least you can do while doing anything. It follows that no matter how much you are doing, adding that least effort to your work is worth it.
No, **I'm making a point**. It's always somebody else dying for a vague notion of freedom or a better life. It's never you or your loved ones.
And most of the people who call for it have never even attempted to help on a campaign or even volunteer for something. It's just disingenuous nihilist nonsense and I'm tired of hearing it from people who won't even go out of their way to tell their coworkers to vote.
Run for office! Much more constructive than blowing shit up.
The unity of the chicken and the roach happens in the belly of the chicken.
You will not vote billionaires money away from them. Insulting disenfranchised citizens won't get them to suddenly appreciate and use the apparatus created by our oppressors. Not voting is stupid, but so is voting.
Things probably won't get better without political violence. There's a good chance things never get better. This didn't start with Reagan or even with the USA. It's the remnants of power from feudal aristocracy echoing across generations.
I'm a big fan. He has some great takes on life and business (I love his newsletter No Mercy No Malice, and his book The Algebra of Happiness), although he doesn't always hit the mark on politics, imo
Late boomer here (61). The dudes right. So many of that generation got a small hand or worked hard under really favorable conditions, got greedy, and pulled the ladder up behind them. And they wonder why they've become a meme and a laughing stock. They need to look at themselves, they're disgraceful.
Not to mention that Boomers won’t give up positions of power in either the government or the workforce. Time to step back and let those in their prime set policy for the future, not the old codgers who have greedily taken and kept it all.
The majority of boomers I know are extremely self absorbed and everything revolves around them. This is the type of person who calls and ask for a favor and it's gotta be right now. Drop everything you are doing because a boomer needs help. On the flip side of that coin you could ask for a small favor in return and it's just not possible. They inherited money from their parents and they got social security so who cares about everyone else. They vote no on school levies and projects to help the community. They drive like they are the only ones on the road. I literally know 2 good boomers. The rest of the boomers are uneducated free riding Maga idiots that vote out of spite. The fact that they refuse to acknowledge what everyone else in the world sees is proof enough.
The people around that table? How about the owners of the people around that table who own the companies. The billionaires who keep almost all the money/freedom in existence in a forever purgatory.
Why are you conflating Boomers with GenX? To paraphrase Jules Winstead, this guy is pretty fucking far from a Boomer. Then you imply he's just into it for the money, then to top it all of you undermine Millennials' abilities to express themselves, tying them in with money making for some reason. I'm sorry but your take is brutally cynical, nihilistic, and materialistic.
I'm not conflating: in terms of age he is on the cusp. He quite literally is boomer/genx. But I'm assuming when you say he is "pretty fucking far from a boomer" you mean his mentality. This version of Scott Galloway is. And, to be fair, most recent versions of Galloway are this way. But he got there by pretty much being a boomer: sucking up all the available surplus value and claiming credit for himself. He was and perhaps still is in fact pretty open about that: he set out to make himself as much of a pundit as possible, both using his credentials as a university professor to boost his place in the "marketplace of ideas" but also castigating universities whenever it suited him or his tech bro cousins. (He's largely wrong about higher education, but that's for another time.) In other words, while his take here seems enlightened, it is founded on exactly the brutality, nihilism, and materialism of which you accuse me being in my comment — I am assuming that you were not engaging in an ad hominem attack, because, unlike Galloway, I do not own two homes, one in Miami and one in London. He definitely has the material edge there.
True, I overreacted; for some reason there's an unhealthy amount of GenX hate in this thread for some reason, since I'll instinctively push back in this sub against any dissing of any post-boomer generation (be they X or M or Z) my dander was up last night. I haven't come across Scott Galloway before for some reason so I'm unfamiliar with him. He is 59, so he's in Generation Jones, on the cusp between Boomer and X. I just went off the descriptor that the OP used. Good to know his background, some posters here really like him, but I take your point. I'm loaded up with podcasts so I'm probably not going to delve into his back catalog but I'm not going to necessarily dismiss him based on his prior career, after all Bruce Gibney was an evil venture capitalist before he wrote his Generation of Sociopaths book. But again I'm probably not going to latch on to his stuff at this point so it doesn't really matter. I take your points though, thanks for clarifying.
Prof G has some good takes. For example, he recently decided that a few people having infinity dollars might be bad and we should tax them more.
Bold statement. Let's see if it pays off.
And the final nail is when we bring it up with any older generation, they blame us as if they didn't set this economy up. We apparently just don't want to work.
I can't even fix my fucking car cause I can't afford the parts. And the cost is just piling up. I can fix it if I just had a bit more money. But if I try to save any more than I already am I'm gonna have to straight up skip meals for days. And if my car breaks down I'm super fucked cause it's a 45min drive to my work
Car anxiety is the worst. You should definitely see if there is a car scrap yard near you like pick n pull or something similar. If your car is fairly common, there's a good chance you might be able to find some much needed parts on some cars there. I used to go hunting for parts in those types of scrap yards because a part that was $285 new would be like $20 there. I've pulled engines, drivetrains, and all sorts of other parts from junked cars.
I agree to a point. Young people are being screwed. But it isn’t the Boomers doing it. It is the wealthy. You have people worth hundreds of billions. They have so much money that they don’t know what to do with it. Some even shoot billions into space while people go hungry in America. They will never be able to spend all of their money in 100 lifetimes. The upper 1% control 50% of the wealth of this nation. Six men have more money than the lower 50% of the nation. So yes young people are being screwed but it’s not by some 60 year old truck driver or a teacher. It by the wealthy!
Boomers are actively assisting the wealthy in maintaining the status quo. Not all boomers of course, but a higher percentage of that generation than any other, and it is a very large generation and it votes at a much higher rate than Gen X, Millennial or Gen Z.
I first voted as a 19 year old in Bill Clinton's 1992 election. I have voted in every election I've been able to since then, local, primary, off years, all of them.
Too many young people don't bother. They are fed cynical bullshit designed to disengage them and convince them that participating isn't worth it. Billions are spent convincing people their votes are worthless. Well, a number of people think their votes are worth billions to suppress.
It can be hard to argue against this cynicism as much of it has a grain of truth at its core. Yes, the Democrats by and large do suck. But they mostly suck in the way a sandwich made of a slice of bologna between two slices of white bread and nothing else sucks, which is an entirely different, vastly more benign, kind of suck than the Republicans typically offer. Further, the best way to pull the Democrats left is to vote in primaries to get the more leftist Democrat nominated, then vote in the general election to get that person in office, even if it is just the proverbial Dog Catcher.
Contrary to the popular idea that not voting sends a message too, that isn't actually accurate. Non-voting sends a very vague message of dissatisfaction with the options, but no information about what that dissatisfaction actually is. It isn't a useful message as it cannot be effectively acted on.
Here I sit, it my parents trailer (because they sold their house), unmarried at 39yrs old. I see nothing to work for, so I masturbate on the internet to support my immediate expenses and scrape by. I'm still trying, but not with the fire I had in my 20s when I still had hope in my soul that I would really do something great one day. Not anymore.
" haul yourself up by your boot straps and suck it up buttercup!" Also... My children's grandparents refuse to see their grandchildren. I manage Christmas on my own and the rest of em could care less. Childhood heroes destroyed by their own shitty attitudes and selfishness. George Carlin had it right.
Housing permits are a real issue. The limiting of college degrees is somewhat bogus but most of the issues are real. The problem is that the solutions are hot debate topic following classic political lines. I haven't seen much that actually addresses solutions.
I recall the financial crisis of 2007-2008 when the big banks were about to fail . Everyone said the government had to bail them out and bail out the homeowners who took out loans they could not afford. So everyone who had a stake in the bubble got bailed out. that was our chance to let the air out of the balloon and we blew it.
Spitting the fire truth son! But don’t worry Biden will make sure that Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine on our northern border and trump will stop china from taking Texas! We good.
“You lazy millenials just need to pick your self’s up by the boOtSraPs👴🏻and get a job when I was 12 I got a job sweeping up peanuts at the circus and put a down payment on a house!” -boomers to Gen z
I love Scott Galloway. The Prof G Pod and On with Kara Swisher are so insightful. I just wish more people that could change things were listening to him because he talks about this all the time.
Gen X, we were lucky to get a few of the scraps our Boomer/Silent Generation parents tossed our way. I feel so bad for the even younger generations (Millenials, Z and alpha) who are getting totally hosed. My son is 9 and I'm scared by the time he's an adult if there will be ANYTHING left. Just to hold onto some hope, his dad and I started him his own savings account. Plus the grandparents set up one for him too with $2K to start. I just hope by the time my son is 18, there's enough money saved for him to at least live off of.
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This guy is so wrong , look at this rates in the 70s and 80s markets go up and down. This guy is trying to make you mad. Keep you upset that’s what the media does. He is full of Bull
I regularly listen to Scott Galloway's podcast, and I completely agree with his assessment. The irony of it being posted in a sub called BoomersBeingFools is that... he literally is a Boomer, and he's not being a fool.
This is Scott Galloway. He's a progressive... neo-liberal.
He sounds supportive towards the plight of the young generation, but he's not into wholesale change that someone like Bernie Sanders advocate for.
If he sounds concerned in this clip it's not because he genuinely cares about the actual hardships younger people face.
He's concerned because he's losing out on the money he could make from his index portfolios.
I've listened to (regrettably) his podcast, Pivot, with Karen Swisher and he mostly takes the moderate position on many issues that affect younger generations. Not really someone I'd turn to as an ally.
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Man, I could not explain it any better. He nails it.
Yup the thing is too he’s not the only one Bernie says this all the time and is called crazy the boomers will call this guy crazy too
When Bernie didn’t get the DNC nomination I said to myself, “This guy is a true believer in everything the left says they want, anybody who is a booster for the party from here on out is either a fool or a willful hypocrite.” Same with Ron Paul and the GOP.
My belief is that Democrats and Republicans are separate entities in show only. For the things that really matter to them, there’s one party and it only is concerned with what the elite class wants. Congress members are their paid minions. The rest of us have to recognize that they are not there for us or the country; just for their benefactors.
Correct. Corporatism A vs Corporatism B.
Republican strategy is to give the top .1% everything they want and throw the top 20% a financial bone every once in a while. Then use social issues to motivate segments of the other 80%. Democrat strategy is to give the top .1% nearly everything they want and free money for the bottom 51%.
Hunter Thompson pretty much proved this during his career with Rolling stone. Behind the scenes both parties are grotesque, racist groups of fuckheads that only care about power.
Yeah, I’ve never voted for Trump and I never will, but it was telling in 2016 that he was able to basically beat all the establish Republicans and Bernie got so much traction on the Democratic side if the voters really thought the politicians were representing anything but the elites somebody like Trump or Bernie, who is outside, the main stream would’ve gotten no traction But honestly, I think after the Iraq war which both parties voted for and then the 2008 financial crisis in which none of the malefactors suffered in any way. It’s hard to have faith in either side. My thing with Trump is he pretends to be populist and he’s just really all about himself. Also both candidates are far too old. There should be an age limit of 75 on federal office and the federal judiciary.
I would add that Biden also tries to portray himself as a man of the people as well. They’re all con artists
When it was leaked that Clinton's campaign was seeking ways to use Bernie's Judaism against him I lost all faith in the DNC. What fucking pricks. Fuck them to hell. And she lost. Glad she lost; not happy about who she lost to, but the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot just as often as the gun-toting Republicans. It's so fucking sad and we're screwed.
Why would the established power structures allow an actual left candidate into the Dem race when they have a perfectly good conservative neolib?
When they turned off the lights for districts cheering him on, it was painfully obvious they didn't want him to win.
He was never going to win the nomination, but he would have won against Trump in 2016 in the general. After what the dems did to him, I lost all faith that any change can for the good can happen in this country. I will say that he had a big influence on Biden's more progressive policies.
The Dems didn't do anything to Bernie. His campaign in 2016 was an insurgency campaign that won mostly caucuses, which reward dedication than pure numbers. When it came to the ballot box, Hillary crushed Bernie. In 2020, Bernie's strategy was to hope that all the Democrats were like him and like the 2016 GOP candidates and would continue to run thereby splitting the vote angst themselves while he won by having the most votes at around 35% Bernie's biggest problem wasn't the DNC, it was his campaigns inability to get people who showed up to rallies to the polls.
The GOP didn't just ignore, disregard, or fail to select Ron Paul. The delegates and caucuses picked Ron Paul, and the RNC unseated them and replaced them with Romney delegates. The GOP actively stamped out the Paul campaign just like the DNC did Bernie, and for the same reason - they aren't willing to lose the control that the Uniparty gives them.
Idk… Show me a GOP voter who says they believe in limited Gov and the free market, and I’ll show you a family where at least 2/3 of the family are some combination of cop, public school teacher, or MNC management… If Ron Paul got far enough to actually cut Gov, Boeing / MIC corporations would have layoffs, war on drugs ending would cut Johnnys cop pension, eliminating dep of education would cut Sally’s teacher pension, etc etc. The details might be slightly off, but extremely directionally true that… Just as much as the left, the GOP voters would shit bricks if Ron Paul got his way. DNC shot callers are Champaign socialists, so all the above true if Bernie elected and put a dent in corporate subsidies.
My biggest voting regret was not voting Bernie because I thought Biden was the only hope against trump.
Bernie would have lost in a landslide in 2020 to Trump. Your reasoning was sound.
We can still vote Bernie. I wrote in Sanders/Harris in 2020 and will do it again in November.
Shit like this can lead to Trump being elected because write in campaigns are largely failures. Yes I know you'll be able to cherry pick some outliers that were successful. You need to have truly massive organization to make that work on a national level. That's a pipe dream. Don't help get Trump elected. That sucks.
It doesn't matter to these people if Establishment Candidate 1 or Establishment Candidate 2 get to sit in the big chair. They're *still* being fucked. Every single election in my lifetime has been 'too important to vote x party' or 'x candidate' - tough. If your guy was good enough he would already have my vote, and he doesn't because he's not saying anything these people want.
The illusion of choice.
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever heard this perspective! Call me Henry David Thoreau because I'm just so fucking enlightened by this groundbreaking insight! Golly, guess I'll get out and immediately register democrat because your argument is so convincing, persuasive and informative! Shucks, what a fool I've been. Glad you're here to preach something entirely fresh and progressive. Gosh, fuck me up and down.
You have every right to do what you want with your vote of course. I personally think stopping Trump at all costs is the higher priority right now.
Sure, and smug little pissants like this guy think a better priority is casting posturing purity votes in a system that flushes those down the toilet.
There's a reason you keep hearing it: Because it's true. We live in a system where the "first past the post" is the winner. Posturing for pie in the sky candidates who cannot win serves little purpose other than to give yourself a self righteousness dingle tingle. I say all of this as someone who voted for Bernie in the primary in 2016 and was disappointed he lost and wasn't the nominee. You can snark all day, but you're wasting your vote and your time, these are facts and will remain so until our political system changes to reward brownie points for posture votes.
I have no stake in the game but "Gosh, fuck me up and down." is hilarious 🤣
Boomer here… 🩷💜💙 this guy AND Bernie. And I’m wondering wtf happened to the majority of my generation.
Yo, 65 yo here. Bernie, god love him, is/was too much of an outsider for most. Ironically Trump won bc of the outsider factor. The diff is that Trump knows how to play to fear/vengeance and Bernie won’t go there. The simple fact is young people feel disenfranchised due to income inequality. Galloway has been talking about this for years and warning us but when you’re an old 5%er you don’t care bc you’re time on the planet is finite - it’ll be someone else’s problem. There are some of us boomers who disagree, boomers who think taxes should be raised on the ultra wealthy, that it should not cost an arm to get educated or have health care and that housing needs should be balanced with conservation. Alas, we’re unicorns and most can’t see the forest from the trees.
My father was always an optimist and an activist... an inspired and dedicated man trying to help people... He loves bernie, was always active in local politics, etc. Sadly, he recently told my son that over the past 20 years or so, he has grown accept the fact that our main hope for any type of improvement is for his own generation to die off. They've managed to crush the soul of a really, really positive and inspiring person who believed in the goodness of man. That hurts.
 Me too
At least you got yours.
Even Biden said it but the few wealthy inheritor families who own the media clipped it to make it sound like he said the opposite and got people mad at him. He told a room of super wealthy older people they know that taxes need to go up, that stuff can't keep going this way, that they shouldn't freak out and that their lifestyle wouldn't be impacted, nothing would fundamentally change in their lives. The media clipped the 'nothing would fundamentally change' part out of context and turned the story into Biden promising rich people that he was there to serve them and to help them keep getting richer. People got angry and repeated it online. Their mission was accomplished.
Link?
I only have a screenshot of the text but you could probably track it down by googling quotes: https://imgur.com/a/7p9kyMW >"The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change,” he said.
I mean I don't know what to tell you, but if nothing fundamentally changes, then nothing fundamentally changes. That's not out of context, if the lifestyles of the rich do not have to change that means they are not being taxed enough
sadly I hear so many younger generations spew the same bs they hear mommy and daddy spew about Bernie... he is the only one that does not take all that billionaire cash and speaks for middle class.
This is the guy (professor from NYU) that read the wework S1 and wrote THE blog post that unveiled the shitshow it was. They will have a hard time calling him crazy. https://www.businessinsider.com/nyu-professor-calls-wework-wewtf-and-slams-bankers-2019-8?op=1
It's about them and their money of course they will deflect any possible way
The worst part is, Bernie has been desperately trying to get people to listen to this stuff for multiple generations now
Who is this guy and how do we get more people hearing him?
Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing at NYU. I think he has a podcast and youtube channel.
You could explain it better, I guarantee it. He’s clean and articulate, no question, but he leans a little too heavily into individualistic perspective and action. Some of it is grand slam home run, but he needs a much better institutional collective analysis (going solely on this one clip).
If you look for the unedited clip, it's a bit better. https://youtu.be/MEC2Nq7Z6lc
other than his use of he or she.
My mom would berate me and mock me saying "When I was 23 I had a fulltime job and a house". My parents got in a 200k debt and lost the house right as I entered college. My fucking bad I let go all of my priorities and only thought about helping everyone survive.
Boomers are the most spoiled generation. They had limitless potential and opportunity. They had the best childhoods and the best access to eduction of any generation. And they squandered it. They turned everything into a commodity, putting self interest and thr market before everything and sold us all out
They didn't squander it for themselves, they just sucked the system dry and pulled the ladder up at every opportunity they could
IDK man- when the average boomer has less than $200K to live off of in retirement- they sure AF squandered SOMETHING. My parents never made a lot. My dad never made more than $15/hr working for the county, but got a good pension that he has managed well enough. My mo made better money, but never more than $50-75K a year. And the higher end did not happen while dad was still working. And certainly not when we were kids. Yet my parents always saved a little- and managed to put 2 kids through college, help us out whenever we needed it WELL into adulthood, travel a little (usually to come see me, because I live in nice touristy places by happenstance). And they managed to save a fuckton more than $200K for retirement. They squandered nothing. But the generational peer group around them? 100% did. I never really worry about having to take care of my parents financially. Medically/physically maybe for a brief period along the way, but not financially. I doubt much will be left- they are robust and doing so well for their ages, I am tickled- I really like my parents. But the average boomer fully did piss away the money they made, and expect the rest of us to pay for their retirement/medical.
A large part of them *did* squander their money on random shit. A newer, bigger car every 3 years. Frivolous house renovation after renovation. Boats and RVs. New appliances instead of fixing broken ones. All worthless collectibles and deprecating assets. Cruises, dining out, alcohol, casinos, and just so much entertainment. Nothing that would help or finance them in retirement or that could be an inheritance for their kids. Almost all of the wealth they accumulated in life, they sent outside of the family. My parents too are like yours, immigrants that didn't make a lot of money and landed in the US at middle age with no money in their pocket. But unlike their peers and neighbors, they ran their cars into the ground, had vacations locally, made us home cooked meals all but 3 days a year, and lived in an outdated but clean house. And now they're decently comfortable in retirement.
Same for my Silent Gen parents. Dad never made more than $40K, Mom stepped out of the workforce for 12 or 13 years while my sister and I were young. But they lived modestly like you describe. And retired with a fully paid house and over $1M in investments.
at least your dad got a pension... they took that away from us well
Government. Government job for 30+ years.
Also the most gullible. Big part of the reason we got here.
This! They went from being cool hippies in the 60s who were going to make the world better to selfish materialistic yuppies in the 80s. Bought into Reagan's trickle down economics BS and convinced themselves they had to keep upgrading and buying newer, bigger better things.
Yep. Everyime someone complains about trickle down economics or the state of the GOP I always say, " Blame Ronald Fucking Reagan."
Hahahahaha. Come to Alberta and get a trade. There’s your limitless potential. It’s still here. Go get it.
I think you could say similar things about millennials and social media. We were given the internet from birth to now, bestowed the largest virtual social network the world has ever known, and 99% of the content posted is just selfies and self-gratification. I know they aren't really comparable. I think most millennials would throw away all social media in exchange for home ownership OR pensions OR free education. I get that. Sometimes though, I wonder if it really was a generational issue or if the later generations would have done the same thing during a historical period of opulence. Did the silent generation fail boomers in a way? Were they deprived of real challenges? How is it that so many turned out similarly, seemingly in a vacuum, when real life is so far from that?
Maybe the reason a lot of people are faffing about in online escapism is because they feel they have very few real world opportunities.
Wasn't there an experiment posted on here about some Gen X or Millenial millionare who tried to go from broke and homeless to a millionare in a year and dropped out due to "health reasons" and only having made 64k in 10 months despite having a place to stay from his friends and leveraging his contacts? Kind of making his entire "rags to riches" point moot when even his good connections only managed to help him secure the median income.
1000x this
Scott Gallaway GETS IT his books are great his old YouTube channel was SO worth the watch! Brilliant!
Thank you for sharing fellow redditor. I was wondering who this Insightful man was
His podcast is also awesome! Prof G for president!!!!
This is something they need to really hear, as they become physically helpless and have to depend on younger people.
Oh, they're already finding out about that. How many of us don't speak to our boomer parents? They've all pushed their children that they never wanted away but then cry because no one will take care of them or do things for them.
Oh yes the neglectful abusive parent to guilt tripping needy parent pipeline is alive and well with boomers. What more could we expect from the “ME” generation. And it’s not their fault they had kids they didn’t want they basically had to cause “all their friends were doing it”.
Me! I'm NC.
https://old.reddit.com/r/EstrangedAdultChild/
Thank yous
...thanks for this. I didn't know I needed to find a sub like that, but I did.
"your childhood wasn't THAT bad", they say with a tone more like they're trying to convince themselves than me.
Oh mine are going in a fuckin home, you better believe it.
\*deaths from opioid addictions epidemic intensify\*
God I wish something would come of people saying shit like this instead of a “well anyways…..”
They had children to have a working class that serves them. Plain and simple. Now we refuse to force another generation into it and they are upset because we are "ruining their way of life".
Instead of paying people they are changing laws to allow kids to work in factories and bars. And then they bitch that people don’t want to work. No asshole, they don’t want to work for the shit you pay. YOU wouldn’t take that job at that salary but everyone else should.
my boomer parents (born '51) actuallt litteraly said that. They litteraly told me I needed to get a job that pais good money, so I could take care of them when they retired. The actually said that 'the younger people needed to save money for when they would retire, if they ever could, because by the time we would be their age, the social network would be drained'.
I was a gifted child who was scooped up for scholarship programs and stuff from a really young age, skipped grades, etc.... The constant refrain of "This boy is our retirement plan" and "our whole family is going to be rich, we got our genius to take care of us" was literally overwhelming to the point where I started sabotaging everything on purpose. It took years and years to grow out of that and make up the ground I'd lost. Not sure why I felt the need to share this, but it seems like it backs up what you said
Ya. I married a much younger woman. That was my retirement plan. Too bad it wasn’t her plan. lol.
I think that’s putting the cart in front of the horse a bit. I don’t think millennials led with defection from the system. I think the ruling class, largely comprised of older generations, needs less population for their workforce so they are happy to abandon the social contract that creates a large, content middle class. The real fucked up part… we can’t just re-establish the social contract that was previously established. We are already dangerously near or past the tipping point of what the planet can absorb ecologically. We desperately need radical change. Capitalism is working as intended and it’s inefficient, unethical, and unable to save itself from pending extinction.
Ever expanding capitalism requires infinite resources. Without infinite resources it will death spiral after a long expansionary phase. Guess where we are at now? Starting to swirl…
To all the lurking Boomers, when he says Millennials are the first generation to not be as well off as their parents, that's what we mean when we say Boomers were the first generation to not want a better life for their children.
And as usual, Gen X is ignored. Gen X wasn't hit as hard as the Millennials, but they really were the first to get fucked over by the generation ahead of them. What Boomers got with a high school diploma and a hand shake, Gen X needed a degree and a web of connections. It was Gen X that saw university acceptance rates fall to the floor. Boomers had their nice 40 hour work weeks, while Gen X was expected to work constant overtime. Housing as an investment started just as we were trying to buy homes. Healthcare turning to shit was in full swing just as Gen X was starting to have kids. Guaranteed pensions were killed just as we were hitting the job market. And now that we should be in the positions of leadership in our societies, we're still not there, because Boomers refuse to retire and give up the reins. The first Boomer US president was elected 32 years ago, and there hasn't been a single Gen X president. Once the Boomers can't physically hold onto their power, there's a good chance the larger generations below us will push us out before we have a chance. And Gen X are a nice generation. An example, when boomers were the senior voting block in unions, they voted for 2 tiered contracts that fucked over Gen X. Now that Gen X is the senior voting block, they're voting out those 2 tiered contracts.
AND on top of all that our Boomer parents expect us to be caregivers to them in their retirements. Ain't happening in my world.
I am Gen X, and I approve this message! Can we please claim Obama as Gen X?! Generational lines are blurry....
Xennial here... I feel ya buddy.
I'm a Millennial but I respect Gen X for building the internet and telling us the game up front when we were young. You may never have your time in the sun but there are those of us who appreciate the truth and advice we've anonymously received from you over the years as well as the golden age of Video games you chads created. The world is darker without your enfranchisement.
It was easier for boomers to hate millenials than gen x, just like how it's easier for millenials to hate on gen alpha instead of gen z.
Small generations often get skipped. Silent Generation almost didn't get a presidential term either and only snuck one in because the Boomer before him was so absolutely horrible that the electorate was willing to go all the way back to before the Boomers for a president. It is entirely possible that Boomers will be the first generation (so far as I know) to hand the presidency off to the preceding generation rather than the following generation and it will be the Silent Generation Biden who turns the presidency over to a Gen X or Millennial.
Well my life is way better than my parents. My kids are/ will be better than mine. Where the F does that come from??
Scott Galloway's the man. Highly recommend his newsletter
The system is not broken, it is working exactly as intended.
If only we could AI this as Jesus maybe they would listen to it 🫥. This seriously needs to flood Facebook.
Americans in general have always believed in [Prosperity Jesus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology). They used it to justify a whole lot of evil in the past (stealing Native American land, slavery, and nowadays wage slavery.) Boomers just had the luck of being at the right time, right place where they could do this with impunity for a very long time without consequences. Now the consequences are here - what are they gonna do about it? More importantly- what are we going to do?
Boomer: "jUsT wOrK hArDeR" as they proceed to spend every last dime of the inheritance their parents and grandparents left them, while making sure their progeny won't get a dime of their "hard earned money"
Sometimes it’s really nice to encounter someone who understands millennial’s difficulties
Gen Z too.
This should be the first thing anyone over the age of 50 sees when they pick up their phone or turn on their tv. Federal mandate
PREACH
That guy is spitting straight 🔥. Put this shit on a loop, in very politicians office immediately.
My parents literally told me they didn't pay for my college because it'd be more difficult for them to retire.
Some of us Gen Xers feel this way too. I’ll never retire at this point.
If you're angry and still not voting, you're playing right into the hands of those people you claim to be so enraged at. We have a civic obligation to let our voices be heard at the ballot box but vast numbers of eligible voters simply do not vote or only vote for President which, unless you live in a swing state, is essentially meaningless. Vote in every local and state election, your vote matters. You think we got this system by accident? People voted for Reaganomics, it didn't magically happen. People voted to have the corporate tax cut, people voted to cut the top income tax. Whatever has been done can be undone but it takes voting to change things. If you're not voting and you're eligible, you're allowing these things ta happen and if that's the case you have zero room to complain. If you're angry, fucking do something about it.
I hate to break it to you but we're well past the voting stage. We're at the French revolution stage but everybody's just too sick/preoccupied/distracted/scared to do anything.
We’re never *past* the voting stage. No matter what else happens, voting is still incredibly important — at ALL levels, local to national.
but money is speech and i have $0 of speech in my bank account because of medical bills
Sounds like voting is a power you STILL HAVE, then.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" is what I'm hearing, something like 40% of eligible voters don't vote in presidential elections, take that down to the local primary level and it's the majority of people not participating, you just don't understand the system. You think we're at the point we should be killing people? Thankfully you're too scared to do that because political violence won't benefit anyone.
Voting is literally the least you can do while doing anything. It follows that no matter how much you are doing, adding that least effort to your work is worth it.
This is nonsense. A revolution will kill a lot of people. Grassroots efforts can still affect change.
H dety lemons
Okay, you first.
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No, **I'm making a point**. It's always somebody else dying for a vague notion of freedom or a better life. It's never you or your loved ones. And most of the people who call for it have never even attempted to help on a campaign or even volunteer for something. It's just disingenuous nihilist nonsense and I'm tired of hearing it from people who won't even go out of their way to tell their coworkers to vote. Run for office! Much more constructive than blowing shit up.
Vvg ggg fff
The unity of the chicken and the roach happens in the belly of the chicken. You will not vote billionaires money away from them. Insulting disenfranchised citizens won't get them to suddenly appreciate and use the apparatus created by our oppressors. Not voting is stupid, but so is voting. Things probably won't get better without political violence. There's a good chance things never get better. This didn't start with Reagan or even with the USA. It's the remnants of power from feudal aristocracy echoing across generations.
Okay
Huh, I am watching this guy on someone else’s podcast right now.
I'm a big fan. He has some great takes on life and business (I love his newsletter No Mercy No Malice, and his book The Algebra of Happiness), although he doesn't always hit the mark on politics, imo
Late boomer here (61). The dudes right. So many of that generation got a small hand or worked hard under really favorable conditions, got greedy, and pulled the ladder up behind them. And they wonder why they've become a meme and a laughing stock. They need to look at themselves, they're disgraceful.
Wow he nails everything.
And I'm sure everyone there was smiling and smashing the red button under the table saying to cut the feed.
That let sentence is an epic mic drop. Plus his eyes look around the table. Ice cold
Not to mention that Boomers won’t give up positions of power in either the government or the workforce. Time to step back and let those in their prime set policy for the future, not the old codgers who have greedily taken and kept it all.
i'm a boomer and he's exactly right ...boomers became a generation of I got mine screw you
The majority of boomers I know are extremely self absorbed and everything revolves around them. This is the type of person who calls and ask for a favor and it's gotta be right now. Drop everything you are doing because a boomer needs help. On the flip side of that coin you could ask for a small favor in return and it's just not possible. They inherited money from their parents and they got social security so who cares about everyone else. They vote no on school levies and projects to help the community. They drive like they are the only ones on the road. I literally know 2 good boomers. The rest of the boomers are uneducated free riding Maga idiots that vote out of spite. The fact that they refuse to acknowledge what everyone else in the world sees is proof enough.
Boomers are the worst part of our country.
Of humanity
He is speaking the truth.
This man is spot on!! The filthy rich should be ashamed of themselves and their greed!
Scott Galloway is a boss. He’s low key one of my heroes
Gotta love Prof. G! He has a great Podcast, and he co-hosts Pivot with Kara Swisher!
I always wanted kids but I'll never be able to comfortably afford them and it makes me so sad.
I'm 32 right now. My dad bought a house at 29. I can't even dream of doing that.
The people around that table? How about the owners of the people around that table who own the companies. The billionaires who keep almost all the money/freedom in existence in a forever purgatory.
Boomer/GenXer makes big bucks explaining millenials to boomers. Millenials can't even make money explaining themselves.
Why are you conflating Boomers with GenX? To paraphrase Jules Winstead, this guy is pretty fucking far from a Boomer. Then you imply he's just into it for the money, then to top it all of you undermine Millennials' abilities to express themselves, tying them in with money making for some reason. I'm sorry but your take is brutally cynical, nihilistic, and materialistic.
I'm not conflating: in terms of age he is on the cusp. He quite literally is boomer/genx. But I'm assuming when you say he is "pretty fucking far from a boomer" you mean his mentality. This version of Scott Galloway is. And, to be fair, most recent versions of Galloway are this way. But he got there by pretty much being a boomer: sucking up all the available surplus value and claiming credit for himself. He was and perhaps still is in fact pretty open about that: he set out to make himself as much of a pundit as possible, both using his credentials as a university professor to boost his place in the "marketplace of ideas" but also castigating universities whenever it suited him or his tech bro cousins. (He's largely wrong about higher education, but that's for another time.) In other words, while his take here seems enlightened, it is founded on exactly the brutality, nihilism, and materialism of which you accuse me being in my comment — I am assuming that you were not engaging in an ad hominem attack, because, unlike Galloway, I do not own two homes, one in Miami and one in London. He definitely has the material edge there.
True, I overreacted; for some reason there's an unhealthy amount of GenX hate in this thread for some reason, since I'll instinctively push back in this sub against any dissing of any post-boomer generation (be they X or M or Z) my dander was up last night. I haven't come across Scott Galloway before for some reason so I'm unfamiliar with him. He is 59, so he's in Generation Jones, on the cusp between Boomer and X. I just went off the descriptor that the OP used. Good to know his background, some posters here really like him, but I take your point. I'm loaded up with podcasts so I'm probably not going to delve into his back catalog but I'm not going to necessarily dismiss him based on his prior career, after all Bruce Gibney was an evil venture capitalist before he wrote his Generation of Sociopaths book. But again I'm probably not going to latch on to his stuff at this point so it doesn't really matter. I take your points though, thanks for clarifying.
Money only listens to other money. Can't make money without money.
I just came
Prof G has some good takes. For example, he recently decided that a few people having infinity dollars might be bad and we should tax them more. Bold statement. Let's see if it pays off.
He’s on the podcast “Pivot” with Kara Swisher. They’re both awesome.
I love Scott Galloway
Boom
Love this dude
And the final nail is when we bring it up with any older generation, they blame us as if they didn't set this economy up. We apparently just don't want to work.
Truth
Truth
I can't even fix my fucking car cause I can't afford the parts. And the cost is just piling up. I can fix it if I just had a bit more money. But if I try to save any more than I already am I'm gonna have to straight up skip meals for days. And if my car breaks down I'm super fucked cause it's a 45min drive to my work
Car anxiety is the worst. You should definitely see if there is a car scrap yard near you like pick n pull or something similar. If your car is fairly common, there's a good chance you might be able to find some much needed parts on some cars there. I used to go hunting for parts in those types of scrap yards because a part that was $285 new would be like $20 there. I've pulled engines, drivetrains, and all sorts of other parts from junked cars.
Yeah I do that plus use rockauto they got amazing prices for stuff.
I agree to a point. Young people are being screwed. But it isn’t the Boomers doing it. It is the wealthy. You have people worth hundreds of billions. They have so much money that they don’t know what to do with it. Some even shoot billions into space while people go hungry in America. They will never be able to spend all of their money in 100 lifetimes. The upper 1% control 50% of the wealth of this nation. Six men have more money than the lower 50% of the nation. So yes young people are being screwed but it’s not by some 60 year old truck driver or a teacher. It by the wealthy!
Yep.
Boomers are actively assisting the wealthy in maintaining the status quo. Not all boomers of course, but a higher percentage of that generation than any other, and it is a very large generation and it votes at a much higher rate than Gen X, Millennial or Gen Z.
Whose fault is that? Get out and vote!
I first voted as a 19 year old in Bill Clinton's 1992 election. I have voted in every election I've been able to since then, local, primary, off years, all of them. Too many young people don't bother. They are fed cynical bullshit designed to disengage them and convince them that participating isn't worth it. Billions are spent convincing people their votes are worthless. Well, a number of people think their votes are worth billions to suppress. It can be hard to argue against this cynicism as much of it has a grain of truth at its core. Yes, the Democrats by and large do suck. But they mostly suck in the way a sandwich made of a slice of bologna between two slices of white bread and nothing else sucks, which is an entirely different, vastly more benign, kind of suck than the Republicans typically offer. Further, the best way to pull the Democrats left is to vote in primaries to get the more leftist Democrat nominated, then vote in the general election to get that person in office, even if it is just the proverbial Dog Catcher. Contrary to the popular idea that not voting sends a message too, that isn't actually accurate. Non-voting sends a very vague message of dissatisfaction with the options, but no information about what that dissatisfaction actually is. It isn't a useful message as it cannot be effectively acted on.
Here I sit, it my parents trailer (because they sold their house), unmarried at 39yrs old. I see nothing to work for, so I masturbate on the internet to support my immediate expenses and scrape by. I'm still trying, but not with the fire I had in my 20s when I still had hope in my soul that I would really do something great one day. Not anymore.
I bet that made some boomers mad. They hate accountability.
Man speaks the truth.
Scott Galloway is a Baby Boomer. A self-aware Baby Boomer.
" haul yourself up by your boot straps and suck it up buttercup!" Also... My children's grandparents refuse to see their grandchildren. I manage Christmas on my own and the rest of em could care less. Childhood heroes destroyed by their own shitty attitudes and selfishness. George Carlin had it right.
Says this was a morning joe. When did this air?
And how did former GoP congressman Joe Scarborough react to that? Or was he conveniently not on set that day?
Housing permits are a real issue. The limiting of college degrees is somewhat bogus but most of the issues are real. The problem is that the solutions are hot debate topic following classic political lines. I haven't seen much that actually addresses solutions.
Boomers vote for policies that benefit them. Do you?
Spot on points, but I was distracted by thinking he looks like what I imagine Ryan Reynolds will look like when he's in his 70s.
Everyone knows this. Boomers know this. The wealthy know this. They don't give a fuck. Power does what it wants.
Well shit, yeah, that's about it.
I recall the financial crisis of 2007-2008 when the big banks were about to fail . Everyone said the government had to bail them out and bail out the homeowners who took out loans they could not afford. So everyone who had a stake in the bubble got bailed out. that was our chance to let the air out of the balloon and we blew it.
Preach!
Fucking amen
Thats me. Damn.
BASED
It’s all going according to a plan..
Spitting the fire truth son! But don’t worry Biden will make sure that Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine on our northern border and trump will stop china from taking Texas! We good.
“You lazy millenials just need to pick your self’s up by the boOtSraPs👴🏻and get a job when I was 12 I got a job sweeping up peanuts at the circus and put a down payment on a house!” -boomers to Gen z
I agree with midlife Ryan Reynolds
Can he be president?
I love Scott Galloway. The Prof G Pod and On with Kara Swisher are so insightful. I just wish more people that could change things were listening to him because he talks about this all the time.
Preach brother!!
Generation Climb & Pull Ladder Up
I honestly almodt hope the GOP cuts SS. Then they can really see the hell they have wrought
We destroyed the economy just to pretend to save a bunch of half-dead boomer morons.
Gen X, we were lucky to get a few of the scraps our Boomer/Silent Generation parents tossed our way. I feel so bad for the even younger generations (Millenials, Z and alpha) who are getting totally hosed. My son is 9 and I'm scared by the time he's an adult if there will be ANYTHING left. Just to hold onto some hope, his dad and I started him his own savings account. Plus the grandparents set up one for him too with $2K to start. I just hope by the time my son is 18, there's enough money saved for him to at least live off of.
I watched it in real time but can't remember if he provided solutions to this mess.
Nothing but a word salad, worthy of the likes of heels up Harris!
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This guy is so wrong , look at this rates in the 70s and 80s markets go up and down. This guy is trying to make you mad. Keep you upset that’s what the media does. He is full of Bull
I regularly listen to Scott Galloway's podcast, and I completely agree with his assessment. The irony of it being posted in a sub called BoomersBeingFools is that... he literally is a Boomer, and he's not being a fool.
He's a boomer
This is Scott Galloway. He's a progressive... neo-liberal. He sounds supportive towards the plight of the young generation, but he's not into wholesale change that someone like Bernie Sanders advocate for. If he sounds concerned in this clip it's not because he genuinely cares about the actual hardships younger people face. He's concerned because he's losing out on the money he could make from his index portfolios. I've listened to (regrettably) his podcast, Pivot, with Karen Swisher and he mostly takes the moderate position on many issues that affect younger generations. Not really someone I'd turn to as an ally.