Sunday Discussion -Scott Galloway And The Stolen Future

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Who the heck is Scott Galloway and why would he know about the future? It's a good question, and to be honest, I don't have much of an answer. I do know he's a podcaster and educator, and a few months ago he got to give a TedTalk. This TedTalk: https://youtu.be/qEJ4hkpQW8E He claims to be worried about the young people today, who have no chance to buy their own houses or get out of educational debt or find self-confidence in anything about themselves. The first two problems are thanks to those dastardly Boomers, but the last one is a consequence of social media. As much as I like to trash some snotty Boomers, the arguments Galloway makes...don't quite add up for me. Well, I can't criticize the housing part, since I really have no background in that area, but his attitudes towards higher ed. don't seem to me to be very representative of reality. He also seems to be misrepresenting some of the data he presents to drag the audience into a fearfest for the future. So let's consider. First, housing. Why is there a housing crisis? Who is preventing affordable homes from being built? Why are the prices out of the price range of younger people now when Carl Sandburg's father paid for a three-room house on a railroad blacksmith assistant's salary in just a few years? Second, education. It's true that the costs of education have skyrocketed in the last few decades, and the reasons given are somewhat suspicious. He also makes a possible reference to grade inflation and the purpose of a college education, while separating his regular-guy self from his ivory tower colleagues at NYU. How should we control the costs of higher education? Is it really necessary for everyone to have one or more degrees? What kind of education should we be expecting, or even demanding, from our institutions? Finally, there's social media. There's enough about social media for at least another discussion, so let's just look at what Galloway says about it. What can parents do to control their children's consumption of social media? What responsibility do sites like Facebook and TikTok have for their negative influence on children's emotional development? Why is Galloway so hellbent on kids "making mistakes"? It's just one man's opinion, and we can have our own about it!