I am not being hyperbolic or dramatic when I write that if you do only one thing today, you should take the time to listen to, register, and share Scott Galloways words in the above video.
In 10 minutes’ time, Galloway diagnoses most of what has gone wrong with the United States of America, and he does so not by attacking the people of the United States or the design of the United States. He correctly describes what until relatively recently made the USA a great nation and a country to which people from around the world flocked. We were that once upon a time for many people, and that time was within my lifetime. Galloway’s diagnosis is that during the 1980s, our country was redesigned and the design was injustice for the sake of creating a ruling class. His words are unflinching; he refers to today’s billionaires as oligarchs and, as Galloway himself is a person worth over $100 million, he tells us that the super-wealthy pathologically no longer are capable of attaining happiness. He gives the most concise case I have ever heard not for why the super-rich should be taxed more, but why they must be taxed more to save the country. He observes that the #MeToo campaign ultimately was a rebellion against men who hold too much power, that the now-famous killing of United Healthcare’s CEO likewise was a rebellion against rich men who hold too much power, and that these mini-rebellions are warnings of a full-scale rebellion that can be averted if this country invervenes to keep billionaires from taking everything from the 340 million average people who increasingly are struggling just to survive as they lose all hope of ever thriving.
As a contrarian by nature, I almost never agree with everything any given person says. As a matter of fact, just a couple of days ago I argued against Galloway’s campaign to convince the public that masculinity is synonomous with protecting meek women, children, and other people who he perceives to be weaker and in need of protection by big, strong dudes. OK; I can make arguments against his masculine-dominance theories and still appreciate his otherwise perfectly articulated case for stopping our political-economic runaway train before it destroys the entire country.
Please listen to Galloway’s soliloquy and share his ideas, whether you share the video or just spread the insights in personal conversations. We are running out of time to save this country and I believe Galloway correctly diagnosed the primary disease that has infected our systems and he prescribes a workable treatment—if the nation is not already too far gone to save.
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