Derek Thompson

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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Inside the Anti-Social Century — with Derek Thompson · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And so people will stay inside.

And rather than take risks in the world of flesh and blood, try to meet girls, try to meet guys, instead the risks that they take

are the cheap thrill risks of staying on your couch and betting on calci or some sports betting app.

And so I think that there are ways in which you can absolutely tell a story that economic forces have changed human behavior and even changed what is an appropriate way to spend your free time, right?

It is now considered cool or okay, permissive,

to rather than socialize in the physical world, stay home, text a couple of people, scroll on TikTok and place a few bets.

Well, so yeah, um,

Let's take each part.

Monks, what do we think about when we think about monks?

We think about devout, religious, often men, who spend time in a monastery looking at a finite number of scripts and texts and filling their life with these ideas that they can hold in their hands rather than venturing out into the world and experiencing it in a kind of flesh and blood way.

Today's monks are not religious.

They are secular monks.

And rather than hold traditional scriptures in their hands, they hold, of course, a smartphone.

And so I think that a lot of young men today are essentially behaving like monks.

But what makes this particularly strange is that it's a weird juxtaposition to imagine a monk

in a casino.

But when you think about what people are doing on their phones, increasingly, they're gambling.

The average young man now spends significantly more time gambling than he spends reading.

I think more than 50% of men were active on betting markets in the last six months.

And we see that the costs are not just to their time.

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