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

I read this really fascinating economic paper that was trying to summarize the most important social themes of the 20th century.

And they said, you know, you've got the rise of female education.

You've got the decline of the blue-collar workforce, the rise of the white-collar workforce.

You've got delayed childbirth.

It had all of these facts.

And I thought about, you know, what would it be like

to write that same paper about the first 20-so years of the 21st century.

What are the most important socioeconomic statistics?

I thought, well, we're spending less time with each other.

We're getting married less.

We're dating less.

We're coupling less.

We're having fewer children.

We have fewer friends.

We spend more time in our homes and spend less time in public places.

These are all

anti-social trends.

So let's just get up and call it the anti-social century.

And I've done a lot of writing after that initial cover story to sort of unpack what I consider some of the more surprising implications of the anti-social century on our lives, on the economy, and on politics.

Yeah, there are absolutely upsides.

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