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

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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. 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. Visual depictions and well written descriptions of where America has been, is now, and ways forward. Political rhetoric is a decent barometer of the ideological state of the nation, and rhetoric changed markedly in the Reagan Revolution.

Refugees show a high degree of resiliency—their initial salaries start off low, but after 25 years, they hold a median income higher than the overall population.Not only is that amazing, but then gave the reader the ability to read each chart, and no more than a page of information, and understand deeper meanings.

There a very steep and long-term distrust of government, which is now hovering at only about 20% of the population. It would be easy, but erroneous, to assume the book is a gloom laden dystopian rant about a nation in trouble.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. When online “dating” (really, online meeting) began to gather momentum in the dot-com era, it tore through the cultural ecosystem, and within a generation it had become the dominant matchmaking medium.

The book is a great summary of where the country is today, as compared to the past or to other countries or comparative technologies, or, or, or! A serial entrepreneur, he has founded nine firms, including L2, Red Envelope, Prophet, and Section4. Adrift as a book covers some very interesting observations about America and provides simple charts to back them up. I benefited from being born in a time and place of unprecedented prosperity with a host of advantages, most of them circumstantial.He is a Podcaster, including: Pivot — Every Tuesday and Friday, Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. Consider the iPhone: all of its core technologies flow from those public sector investments, from the chip at its heart to the GPS satellites and the global network on which it depends.

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. He notes that one of the most dangerous trends in America is the growing number of undereducated, lonely, poor, angry and terminally single young men. 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. There are multiple trajectories of societal and economic changes which are simply unsustainable - be it the widening gap of income between the richest and the poorest, declining access to proper education, reduced social mobility and dwindling middle class - data shows how the current state of affairs is a far cry from the American ideals of equal chances and destiny shaped by hard work. And by doing so, they bring a needed jolt to the economy, not just by supplying labor, but also from their willingness to launch new businesses.Beginning in the 1980s under President Reagan, those institutions began to decline, leading to an economic stagnation that has produced a host of woes facing the United States.