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Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]

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Re: Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]

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Post by janalsncm »

VS1999 wrote: post #47
jonathankoren wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, your proposals are also engineering society. It’s just a society of the 1800s and before. It sucked. It sucked for the vast majority of people. Life may still suck, but it sucked a lot worse then. To be completely clear here. When you say, “ accept this will lead to wealth inequality but maybe a benevolent billionaire class will be more likely to 'fix' society more than our 'elected' representatives can.” Y…

Do you use twitter? The rhetoric in this post has the exact cadence of someone who spends a lot of time on social media.

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that a social media company owned by a billionaire would amplify such convenient talking points. He amplifies his own account there as well.

If you read through his retweets and “original” content it is a litany of things which don’t matter and are meant to invoke an emotional response to distract you from the things that do.

Re: Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]

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Post by janalsncm »

deadbabe wrote: post #53
wakawaka28 wrote: post #49

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What does that have to do with anything?

It seems off topic but yea I get what he’s saying, all countries are basically in this mess together because of climate change.

It’s a bit reductive. It doesn’t explain the discrepancies between countries. Every country is going to be negatively impacted, that doesn’t mean the problems we are already seeing are the result of climate change.

On the other hand it does speak to the fact that governments can’t seem to get their shit together even when a problem is so clearly carved up and served on a silver platter as climate change.

Re: Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]

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Post by peutetre »

nritchie wrote: post #26

One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system "free speech" or we could call it "legalized bribery." We made the wrong choice.

Donald Trump's only virtue is that what you see really is what you get.

He bluntly asked for $1 billion in campaign funding from oil companies in exchange for government policy that will benefit the oil business. Everything is transactional with Trump:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...

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Post by voisin »

qnleigh wrote: post #11
nox101 wrote: post #5

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doesn't this assume they all vote as single block? if their vote is diverse then it won't make much difference

No. Political parties change their behavior to capture voting demographics. Right now politicians aren't motivated to win the young vote because we vote less.

Is there actual evidence of this occurring or is it just a hypothesis? I can’t recall offhand significant policy changes to capture voting demographics.

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Post by voisin »

peutetre wrote: post #63
nritchie wrote: post #26

One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system "free speech" or we could call it "legalized bribery." We made the wrong choice.

Donald Trump's only virtue is that what you see really is what you get. He bluntly asked for $1 billion in campaign funding from oil companies in exchange for government policy that will benefit the oil business. Everything is transactional with Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...

People took his rhetoric figuratively when they should’ve taken it literally. Now we know!

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Post by aaomidi »

jmclnx wrote: post #3

He is right, but the young can change things. The sad fact is they do not vote, and if they vote at all it is only in presidential. Even in those elections well less then 50% vote. They are a big voting block, if they all start voting, including in local elections, in about 10 years you will see change. But seems people these days want instant change. 2024 will be a big tell for the young, depending on who wins, thin…

> The sad fact is they do not vote,

Vote for who? Like, legitimately, who?

> 2024 will be a big tell for the young, depending on who wins, things could get far worse for them.

Will it though? The current state is decades of shitty politics from both sides of the aisle leading us here.

> the young, if that have patience, can change things by voting in all elections.

Every major, positive, change in the US has come from direct action in the form of withholding labor, violent (yes, violent) protests, and other forms of action that would get you put on a list.

We are living in a society where the President is saying we're a free country while in the backdrop, people are being arrested for protesting our involvement in a war.

Voting has never, and will never, solve anything. There are examples of this over, and over again. Neither party represents the views of the majority of Americans, are extremely susceptible to bribery, and have generally no reason to care about what the average voter wants.

Beyond that, corporations also control the majority of media we consume. To the point that when there is a corporation that's not immediately acting in the self interest of the US government, we lobby to ban that (TikTok).

How exactly is voting between D and R going to actually change anything for the future generation?

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Post by slillibri »

janalsncm wrote: post #55
pylua wrote: post #36

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In the U.S., a lot of places I go seem to be run by skeleton crews with workers that are deeply dissatisfied. Something is fundamentally going awry.

As I was waiting in a long checkout line at the grocery store (one checkout line was open of the 8 available) I looked up the owners. Turns out it is a subsidiary of a regional grocery owned by private equity. No doubt there is some calculation of cost benefit. I took the survey on the receipt I got and told them it was clear how their private equity ownership degraded my experience, and that they need to hire more c…

I have been in Tokyo for the last 2 weeks and every place I go would be considered over-employed in the US. The only time I have seen less than 2 people staffing a convenience store was at 4am. It seems like every place I go there is at least 1 or 2 people cleaning, and still several people to handle customers. I went to this tiny ramen shop, with a ticket machine for ordering food and about 15 seats and there were 4 people working. There were more staff than people at that time, but the place does get busy at other times. Makes me wonder if eliminating all jobs in favor of automation isn't a great idea after all.

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Post by Sammi »

nritchie wrote: post #26

One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system "free speech" or we could call it "legalized bribery." We made the wrong choice.

A system where you can buy politicians is not democracy.
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