Derek Thompson

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564 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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

Drinking, yes, has a risk.

Not drinking and socializing less, that has enormous risks too.

So rather than delude ourselves with the idea that there exists a door behind which is the riskless life, we should have the more rational idea that every door in that vestibule

has risks behind it.

You choose your own risks and you moderate those risks relative to other risks based on what makes you feel good, what is healthy, and what brings life to your community.

But this idea that there exists the door without risks, that's just a myth.

I think what we're seeing is a story that is very generational.

And I think the fact that it's a cohort story and a generational story is almost always underexplained in analyses.

I remember I graduated from college in 2008.

And I started writing for The Atlantic in 2009.

And I was writing a lot about the economy in the early 2010s through Occupy Wall Street.

And after Occupy, which I think was 2011, it became very clear to me that my generation was comfortable with the self-identity of socialism and the word socialism in a way that I myself was not and that previous generations were not.

Millennials, especially geriatric millennials like me, I'm 40, born in the mid-80s, I'd say mid-80s through early 90s,

in some part because of the Great Recession, but also I think because this was a highly educated generation that was extremely disappointed by the economic opportunities made available to people with college degrees, became very comfortable with the self-identity of socialism and with ideas that touched socialism.

And that comfort continued during the Obama years when there was a lot of frustration that Obama couldn't move the country further enough toward universal healthcare and other socialist causes.

Those people aren't 22 anymore.

They're 40.

The average age of an American today is 39.7 years old.

Millennials are in their late 30s and 40s, which means that rather than represent a tiny share of the electorate when their average age was 22, they represent a much larger share of the electorate, especially in cities.

And so it's not surprising to me, from a mere generational perspective,

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