Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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The inevitable question is: What degree of tolerance will we lose when we stop engaging with and integrating into our communities? Over the past few decades, they’ve been as much as two times more likely than adults born in the US to launch a new business. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Companies have fallen in love with ‘yogababble’………the nonsensical pontification that had replaced English in tech unicorns’ mission statements”. I was annoyed by how many times the author brought up immigration and the benefits immigrants bring to America. Tethered all our waking hours to our devices, we’ve become subject to the manipulations of those who control the pipes, and their track record for enlightened despotism isn’t good.

Understanding the social situations around us can make us smarter voters and better citizens, able to better deter manipulation by politicians and shady online sources. The dashboard of threats, from inflated asset values to irreversible climate change to armed assaults on government proceedings, is flashing red and getting worse. What we did was noble—we were making money helping other people raise money so they could invest money to . On second read, I think his use of data is actually pretty fair and contributes more-or-less well to his argument; the problem is, Galloway does a terrible job of actually articulating that argument, constantly getting lost in the weeds.

But herein lies the dilemma: we also rely on news media to help us navigate the false claims and fake news that spread like wildfire around the world on the speedy pathways of the internet. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. As was the case for institutional news outlets, the most popular tweets were the ones that triggered our most violent emotions. 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). In 1965, the chiefs of America’s largest 350 companies by revenue made 21 times the average compensation of their industries’ workers.Lost positions of dominance — The arrival of superior Japanese cars on American roads revealed that our manufacturing base had lost its way.

The fixes required count on the same monies that have absolutely no interest in doing any of the suggested improvements. You can just flip through a few pages whenever you've got a minute, and you'll come out the other side feeling a bit smarter.Adrift as a book covers some very interesting observations about America and provides simple charts to back them up. Galloway is a four or five-time entrepreneur (depending on how you count it) who has been teaching economics at NYU Stern for 21 years. America is starting to spend more on social programs and catching those in Western Europe in terms of share of GDP. It's a vital guide for anyone who wants to understand the state the country is in and how and why its influence on the world has changed. I appreciate that they tried to find silver linings and point out effective remedies, but many of their suggestions involve sweeping systemic/societal change that seems unlikely.

Neuware - AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisisIn Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to reveal how America has reached its current state of political, social and economic crisis.I'm sometimes criticized for focusing on the problems of tech or business or society, and not proposing solutions. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with all kinds of job loss, we also saw a rise in business applications as people innovated and adapted. For all the political heat it continues to generate, Obamacare is also popular, and its actual provisions even more so when polltakers leave out the brand name. If you look at America as a competitor relative to all of its other competitors in that as nations, we're winning," Galloway said.