A large and growing cohort of bored, lonely, poorly educated men is a malevolent force in any society, but it’s a truly terrifying one in a society addicted to social media and awash in coarseness and guns. It might take a creative approach but don’t sell yourself short by giving up on the idea – even if it comes with major challenges. The ascent of the American economy after World War II, coupled with the advances of technology, brought unprecedented prosperity not just to the U.

When he took office, the highest marginal tax rate was 70%—which was the lowest it had been since 1935. Galloway added that we need to also get back to the kind of broadly prosperous — and popular — economic policies that invested in working Americans and the middle class and made America an economic powerhouse for the whole of the 20th century.It’s not the most truthful or pressing stories that get attention, but rather those that collectively entertain or outrage us. In Adrift, NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway looks to the past – from 1945 to present day – to explain just how America arrived at this precipice. From 1950 to the mid-’ 70s, average compensation kept pace with productivity, meaning the benefits of productivity gains went to those doing the work. Not only was the author setting himself up to capture all of the issues in modern America with 100 charts (which is shockingly few when you really think about it), but he was also setting himself up to boil each of those 100 incredibly complex issues which he did choose down to 2-3 pages of text and a chart. In the last ten charts, Galloway tries to offer some solutions, but it's a little too little and a little too late, (and it doesn't help that this is the section that begins with my opening quote above).

And, in that same time span, the share of jobs requiring a bachelor’s or master’s degree has more than doubled from 16 percent to 35 percent. Tanking rents may not be great news for landlords but they can clear the way for more people to move into an area for job opportunities. Im not sure what was more of a waste - the time it took to read this book or the time the author spent writing it. The Girl Scouts have fared a bit better, but even its membership has fallen from 13 per 1,000 people to only seven, a reduction of almost half.In terms of dating apps, online connections can “make small towns seem bigger and big cities feel smaller by connecting people with common interests”.

But instead we get a chart with pretty illustrations of the Empire State Building, a lamppost, and a fire hydrant.

respectively, pretty much everyone else in the economy would pay a 14% tax rate, representing a tax cut of nearly 10% for the average American. Economic frustration is a good recipe for social unrest, and on a personal level, it’s not something you want to experience. Yet, despite that, there are still glimmers of hope scattered throughout our rapidly changing world. And while this book is primarily a look at a superpower facing existential challenges, it also offers important insights and advice on a range of topics from the necessity of openness to new ideas to the benefits of risk and the value of strong community connections. Most of the charts and commentary are interesting, though as a function both of the short length and picking of graphs, several raise dubious correlation-causation-isolation chinrubs (this is particularly the case regarding his sweeping social inferences from eg device usage time series).