How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED - Bilingual Subtitles
My name is Scott Callaway.
I at NYU and I appreciate your time.
I 44 slides in 722.
Let's light this candle.
Okay, so for those of you who don't know me, I'm actually a global television store.
True story.
I've had four TV series in the three years two of them and canceled before they were launched and two were canceled within six weeks
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What are we here for?
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it's clear that Chris is a frustrated soap opera producer.
Essentially what we have here is a telenovela where after a night of unbridled passion between Bill Gates and Malcolm Gladwell,
they give birth to their bastard love child.
Simon Sinek, okay, I start us with a question, do we love our children?
Sounds like an illegitimate question, right?
Well, I'm going to try and convince you otherwise.
essentially as we go down generations, we're seeing that for the last two generations people are making less money on an inflation-adjusted basis.
In addition, the cost of buying a home, the cost of pursuing education, continues to skyrocket.
So the purchasing power, the prosperity, is inversely correlated to age.
Simply put,
as we get younger,
we're taking away opportunity and prosperity from The social contract that is now no longer in place,
and for the first time in the U.S.
history, a 30-year-old is no longer doing as well, his or her parents were at 30.
This is a breakdown in the fundamental agreement we have with any society, and it creates raging shame.
As a result,
people over the age of 55 feel pretty good about America,
but less than one in five people under the age of 34 feel very good about America.
This creates an incendiary.
Righteous movements cuts to our society end up becoming opportunistic infections, because speaking, young people have a warranted envy.
They're pissed off, and they're angry that they don't enjoy the same spoils and prosperity that were provided to our generation.
A decent proxy for how much we value youth labor is minimum wage, and we've kept it purposely pretty low.
If had just kept basic productivity, it'd be about 23 bucks a share, but we've decided to purposely keep it.
Out of reach, median home price has skyrocketed relative to median household income.
As a result, pre-pandemic, the average mortgage payment was $1,100.
It's now $2,300 because of acceleration and interest rates and the fact that the average home has gone from $290,420.
By the way, the most expensive homes in the world.
Based on this metric, our number 3 Vancouver, why?
Because 60% of the cost of building a home goes to permits, because guess what?
The and own assets of weaponized government to make it very difficult for new entrants to ever get their own assets there by elevating their own net worth.
This is the transfer I'm going to be speaking about.
This has resulted in an enormous transfer of wealth.
where people over the age of seven are used to control 19%
of household income versus people under the age of 40, used to control 12.
Their has been cut in half.
This isn't by accident.
It's purposeful.
This is Mia Eustohe in 1987.
I know your first thought is I haven't changed a bit.
This is also Mia Silverio, who is the analyst who put together these slides.
By the way Mia is 26.
I did the math answer brings the average age of the entire conference down 11 days.
When I applied to UCLA, the admissions rate was 76%.
Today it's 9%.
I received a 2.23 GPA from UCLA,
I nothing but how to make bonds out of household items and every line from planet to the apes,
and greatest public school in the world Berkeley decided to let me in with a 2.27 GPA.
And what Higher Ed is about, Higher Ed is about taking unremarkable kids and giving them shots.
And every year, it's gotten more expensive.
Higher ed and homes and the ability not only is higher ed incredibly expensive,
it's not accessible because me and my colleagues are drunk on luxury and I'll come back to that.
We've embraced the ultimate strategy.
Me and my colleagues in higher ed wake up every morning and ask ourselves the same question when we look in the mirror.
How can I increase my compensation while reducing my accountability?
And have found the ultimate strategy,
it's called an LVMH strategy,
where we artificially constrained supply to create aspiration and scarcity such that we can raise tuition faster
And old people and wealthy people have done the same thing with housing.
All a sudden, once you own a home, you become very concerned with traffic.
And you make sure that there's no new housing permits.
And is a memo to my colleagues in Higher Ed, where public servants, not fucking Chanel backs.
Harvard is the best example of this.
They've increased their endowment in the last 40 years and have decided to expand their enrollment, their freshman class by 4%.
Any university that doesn't grow their freshman class faster than population that has over a billion dollars in endowment should lose their tax free status because they're no longer in higher education,
they're a hedge fund offering classes.
My first recommendation,
Biden should take some of that $750 billion earmark to bail out the 130 people that got to go to college on the backs of the two thirds that didn't.
And give a billion dollars to our 500 greatest public institutions size adjusted.
one.
They use technology and scale to reduce tuition by 2%
in year, expand enrollments by 6% a year, and increase the number of vocational certifications and nontraditional 40 degrees by 20%.
Where does that get us?
In just 10 years, in just 10 years, that doubles the freshman seats and cuts the cost in half.
This isn't radical.
This is called college in the 80s and 90s.
Another transfer of wealth.
Look at what's happened to wages.
Oh, they've gone up, not as much as corporate profits.
There's a healthy tension between capital and labor.
For the last 40 years, capital has been kicking the shit out of labor.
What do you think, whoa, what about wages, right?
They've gone up.
Well, if you compare them to the S&P,
they barely,
It's been an amazing time to own assets,
but your attempt to get the certification or the income such you can acquire assets It's gotten harder and harder.
My class of 300 kids.
It's never been easier to be a billionaire It's never been harder to be a millionaire.
By the way,
our job in higher ed is to identify a top 1%
of People who are freakishly remarkable or have rich parents and turn them into a super class of billionaires
It's to give the bottom 90 a chance to be in the top 10 You know,
you know who doesn't need me or higher education the top 10%
The whole point of higher ed is to give the unremarkable,
as I years truly, who was raised by a single immigrant mother, a shot of being remarkable.
The transfer of a While the cohorts,
corporations and the ultra wealthy continue to garner more and more of our wealth,
we decided, I know, if they win the gold that's given the silver and the bronze and let's lower their taxes.
This transfer is purposeful.
It's not by accident.
And it works.
Senior is weighed down, and we should celebrate that.
Meanwhile, child poverty is flat to up.
The third rail,
I'm going to talk about Social Security,
it would cost $11 billion to expand the child tax credit, but got stripped out of the infrastructure bill.
But additional $135 billion a year to Social Security that flies right through Congress,
and every year we transfer $1.4 trillion from a cohort that is increasingly doing less work
to the cohort that is the wealthiest cohort in the history of this planet.
I'm not against Social Security, but the criteria should be if you need it, not whether you have a catheter.
80% of you have absolutely no reason to ever take Social Security.
It is bankrupting our nation and we have fallen under this mythology that somehow it's this great social program.
No, it's not.
It's the great transfer of wealth from young to old.
How is this happening?
Because our representatives are, in fact, representative, old people vote.
Washington has become a cross between the land of the dead and the golden girls.
Quite frankly, this is fucking ridiculous.
And if I sound agist, if I sound agist I am, and you know who else is agist?
When Speaker Pelosi had her first child, of households have color televisions and for Castro, he just declared martial law.
But she's supposed to understand the challenges of a 17-year-old girl who's 5'9,
95 getting tips on dieting and extreme dieting from Facebook.
She's supposed to understand the challenges that a 27-year-old single mother face.
By the way, young and dreamy, young and dreamy, the great intergenerational theft took place under the auspices of a virus.
I let's use the greatest health crisis in the century to really speedball the transfer.
This is the NASDAQ from 2008 to 2012.
We let the markets crash.
And by the way, you need churn, you disruption because it seeds and recalibrates advantage and wealth from the incumbents to the entrants.
It's a natural part of the cycle.
But Lately,
no a million people would,
dying would be bad, but would be tragic is if we let the NASDAQ go down and guys like me lost wealth.
So we pumped the economy, which again, increased the massive transfer of wealth.
The two years of my life, COVID, more time with my kids, more time with Netflix, and my value of my stocks, absolutely exploded.
And who has to pay for my prosperity, not me, future generations who will have to deal with an unprecedented level.
Why am I here and why do I get the prosperity I enjoyed?
Because in 2008, we bailed out the banks, but we didn't bail out the economy.
We let the markets fall.
So as I was coming into my prime income earning years, I got to buy no joke these stocks at these prices.
This is where those stocks are now.
Where does a young person find disruption?
When you bail out the baby boomer owner of a restaurant,
all you're doing is robbing opportunity from the 26-year-old graduate of a culinary academy that wants her shot.
We need disruption.
We're economically attacking the young, but I know, let's attack their emotional and mental well-being.
Let's take advantage of the fact of the flaws in our species with medieval institutions,
paleolithic against things,
and God like I'm just going to say,
I think Mark Zuckerberg has done more damage to young people on our nation while making more money than any person in history.
Oh, but wait, what would give you worse?
This if we let an adversary implant a neural jack into our youth to raise the generation of civic, military, and leaders that hate America.
How can we be this stupid?
All right, this all adds up to a bunch of graphs all headed up into the right, and what are they?
What's the first one?
Oh, that's self-harm rates, which have exploded, especially among girls since my colleague Jonathan
Heidt pointed out it's really, really gone crazy since social went on mobile.
What's the next one?
Teens with depression.
The next one, men and women not having sex.
Biggest fear of my parents was that I wasn't going to get in too much trouble.
My biggest fear, honestly, is my kids aren't going to get into enough trouble.
By the way,
my advice to every young person watching this program is go out, drink more, and make a series of bad decisions that might pay off.
Next graph.
Key middle of a contest.
We're more likely to be shot in the United States if you're a toddler.
Next graph.
Obesity.
Way up.
By way, the industrial food complex wants to addict you to shitty fatty food so they can hand you over to the industrial diabetes complex.
We should not romanticize obesity.
You're not finding your fucking truth.
You're finding diet.
Overdose deaths, way up, deaths of despair, when I was in high school, it drunk driving, now it's kids killing themselves.
Young people don't want to have kids anymore,
two of people aged 30 to 34 able-bodied used to decide to have at least one child.
It's been cut in half, it's now less than a third, 27%.
As a result, people over the age of 60 in the U.S.
are happy.
People the age of 30, not so much.
Some the lowest in the free world.
What can we do?
Nothing wrong with America.
It be fixed with what's right with it.
We got the hard stuff figured out.
There are programs to address all of these issues that cost a lot of money.
That's the hard part.
And we have figured this out.
In five minutes post a earnings call, we add a quarter of a trillion dollars.
We've got the hard part figured out the resources We have the money, but we decide not to do it.
This is per capita spending on childcare in the United States relative to other nations This is housing permit Things are doable.
We increase minimum wage at 25 bucks an hour.
It goes into the economy.
The wonderful thing is about low- and middle-income households as they spend all their money.
We have to have a progressive tax structure with alternative minimum tax on corporations and wealthy individuals.
We need to refund the IRS.
We need to reform Social Security.
It be based on whether you need the money, not on how old you are.
We need a negative income tax.
My friend Andrew Yang screwed up a great idea, but he branded it incorrect.
UBI, who she got Republicans on board by calling it a negative income tax.
We need to eliminate the capital gains tax deduction.
When did we decide that the money the capital earns is more noble than the money that sweats earns?
Shouldn't it be flipped?
We need to remove 230 protection for all algorithmically elevated content.
We need identity verification.
The reason we can have identity verification is because we have a First Amendment.
Break up big tech,
we monopolies that are incurring greater and greater costs on every small business and parents, because again, see above our representatives don't understand these technologies.
We need to age-gate social media.
There's absolutely no reason anyone under the age of 16 should ever be on social media.
We need universal pre-K.
We need to reinstate the expanded child tax credit.
We need term limits, see above Andrew Yang.
We need income-based affirmative action.
Any visible signs of affirmative action.
at all.
You rather be born gay or non-white in the United States today than poor,
and a sign of our progress and our need to recalibrate who we give advantage to.
Affirmative action of which I'm a beneficiary of.
I got Pell Grants,
I got Unfair Advantage,
Affirmative Action is a wonderful thing and it should be based on color,
it be based on green, how much money you have or don't have.
Expand college enrollment of vocational programs, mental health, band phones and schools, investment places, big and sisters programs.
We need national service,
we need to tell people in the United States and Canada that they live in the greatest countries in the world and we need to remind them of that every day by exposing
them to other great Americans where they feel connected to tissue.
We can do all of this, we can do all of it.
We have the resources, the question is do we have the will.
This is my last slide, it is an emotionally manipulative slide to try and get you to like me more.
But it does have a message.
This is the whole shooting match.
Anybody here without kids?
Ask someone with kids.
You have your world of work, you have your world of friends, you have your world of kids.
Something happens here, your whole world shinks through this.
So, I present, as I wrap here, which is a few questions, one.
If you acknowledge that our kids are the most important thing in our lives,
that everything else we do here is meaningful,
but our kids well-being of prosperity is If you acknowledge that they're doing more poorly than previous generations,
if you believe there's a chance that the illusion of complexity has done nothing
but provide cloud cover for the unbelievable transfer of goodwill of well-being and a prosperity from young to old,
and if you believe we can actually fix these problems and we have the resources,
than I present to you,
I posit,
I augur the question that I hope has more veracity than it did 17 minutes and 24 seconds ago and that's the following question.
Do we love our children?
My name is Scott Galloway, I teach know my Thank you, thank you.
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