The War on the Young
I didn’t mean to get into the business of just passing on great videos, but I recently participated in a zoom seminar with Professor Scott Galloway of NYU about this remarkable TED talk, and was so blown away, by his take on the talk and the talk itself, which is a must watch:
To be clear, I don’t agree with everything in this video, but it is clearly directionally right: whether intentional or not, our political system is screwing the young, and Galloway explains in as cogent and as compelling a way as I have seen how that is happening, and why young people are so miserable (put aside the campus protests, only a fraction of young people are participating in them).
On matter of style and substance, this is the best TED talk I have ever seen. Funny, incredibly fact filled in such a short period of time.
There are times when a single picture or, in this case, a video, is worth more than 1,000 (10,000) words. This is one of those times. Again, remarkable.
I promise, I will soon get back to more substantive posts.
Robert, I saw that you are followed by an old friend from college, Geoff Manne. So I was curious to see this post. I, too, saw that talk and roared with laughter because I spent 15 years - as a passion project while being an investment banker and global mining executive - reading more than a dozen Federal budgets and Lord knows how many books and papers on how our governmental fails to function fairly.
Good news! Out of all that came a roadmap for positive change of direction for the nation. I'd love to hear your comments and thoughts if you can find time to read it!
https://a.co/d/d6GtsFY
Messina's Federal Budget is the first book written about the Federal Budget for the widest audience possible. All the Political Class and the huge bureaucracy thrive on complexity. The more difficult they make it to understand how Americans are being taxed and where all that cash is going, the harder it is for an average American citizen to even understand why we're totally bankrupt.
This book for the first time not only describes the entirety of the cash sloshing around Washington, DC, but tells the reader how each department got its start, and why many of those branches of the Administrative State can and should be eliminated. Armed with this book, every American can speak directly to their Congressional "Representatives" to demand specific change.
We can still change direction but it's going to be hard and - GASP! - require massive numbers of Americans to pay attention, care and vote accordingly.
I watched the video. There are several really good ideas presented. Can’t say that I agree with it all, but these stated principles would be a great place to start the discussion of recentering the direction of our country. Thank you for sharing.