‘They Are Just Pissed Off’: Scott Galloway Warns Young People Are ‘Opting Out of America’ As Older Generations Failed Them

I'm not young, but I feel the same way as these young people. I don't care about this country, I don't care about its people, and I don't care about its future. It's like that Bob Dylan song, "I used to care, but things have changed."

What is to opt into? It’s barely affordable to live.

Another one of those frustrating segments where they come so close to being right but miss the point entirely by the end. The diagnosis of the issues young people face is on point, but the answer to most of the problems mentioned is not civics courses. It's redistribution of wealth and providing access to housing and social mobility to young people.

We have every right to be pissed off. I followed every rule you're supposed to follow. And I'm still worried about retiring in the future. The system is fucking stupid. At my job, every system I implement or touch can be changed. Change is a part of life. But for some fucking reason, this country can't change shit. We just sit in it as everything gets worse while everyone who is struggling continues to struggle even more. The rich get richer. America blows.

If my fiance could work outside the US, we would have left a few years ago.

And rightly so, for they have been failed. You can't even GO TO SCHOOL without concern that you'll be killed in a mass shooting. This was never a concern for my generation. In 1992, when I graduated, the thought that going to school could be an extinction event for you was not even conceivable. This shouldn't be an ongoing concern for any generation, yet here we are, sending our kids off to school every morning, knowing that there's a slim chance they might not come back.

It's driving me crazy. But when the whole world's gone mad, how can you be sure you're insane?

It’s not surprising, the power structures keep deviating from the will of people in many cases, or use people as useful idiots for keeping assholes in power.

People like Trump have never won a popular vote in the U.S., and don’t win in the U.S. without gerrymandering.

Moreover, the poverty and misery of immigrants is often exploited to create a “beast” class of citizenry that is then used to create disgust and contempt in others, which is the formula being used in Europe. A lot of these power maintaining strategies are expertly crafted by Harvard/MIT/Ivy League educated sociopaths and psychopaths. People deserve better.

Most interesting to me is that these pissed off folks think this is something new. I remember feeling this way in 1968. And as you get older and realize you're dying, guess what. You have to go through the stages of grief again.

fuck that older generation divide to conquer shit.

the ruling class failed us, not our parents generation.

Oh I thought it was because they like Trump, are Russian bots, and tankies. At least if people here are to be believed.

"It's not just that I have a lot, it's that I have more than everyone else. Forever."

Gen-x'ers have been dealing with this forever. Nothing new.

“Just” doing a lot of heavy lifting here