El autor ha elegido una forma de presentar los problemas contemporáneos del país y de buena parte del mundo sin recurrir al tremendismo ni a la verborragia que parece contaminar la información convertida en entretenimiento.

As a result, he added, people over the age of 70 have become on average 72% wealthier while people under the age of 40 have become on average 22% less wealthy in the last 40 years. 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.You've got folks like Galloway on one side, painting everything black, and then there's an equal number of doom-mongers on the other side. To be very transparent to anyone who has decided to read this far into my review, there are some very specific things that the leading voices on the left and the leading voices on the right do that boil my blood. Look at the charts; read his analysis of each, and it is hard to argue against his conclusion that we are, in fact, a nation adrift.

What the data tells me is not complicated: America is a work in progress, but it’s made the most progress toward its ideals, it’s become the most like itself, when it has invested in a strong middle class. We’re also seeing recreation move online, with tech companies investing in the metaverse, a place for ever more immersive online gaming and interaction.It also took millions of hours of work from thousands of engineers and other wage earners, most of whom were the product of one of the largest government programs we have: public schools.

Knowing a bit about Scott Galloway, I've expected some non-obvious data sets, interesting reasoning, and maybe even well-thought-through suggestions on what to do with that. He uses survey data and government statistics to show where our economy, society, and communities are compared to "before" -- which may be the fifties or the seventies or the 12th century. Men’s share of college enrollment has dropped from 60% in 1970 to 40% in 2021 creating a path to broke and lonely males. This illustrates a sad fact about our media machine: it’s not the most truthful or pressing stories that get attention, but rather those that collectively entertain or outrage us.Galloway said the federal government has also built elaborate safety nets to protect the superrich and corporations in times of crisis. Though the narrative is overwhelmingly negative (similar to the global sentiment towards America—oops, that’s a spoiler), many moments of hope are sprinkled throughout the book.