Josh Brown
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You're not going to stop people from gambling.
Just give them a different thing to gamble on.
But all of the memes were Wolf of Wall Street.
And so I guess for my generation, we had the original Wall Street movie with Gordon Gekko.
So these kids like sort of, they understood that he was an antihero, but they like patterned their way of speaking about markets.
And like, they really internalized that, I think in the wrong way.
And a lot of people lost a lot of money.
Thinking that like the name of the game is to scam other people.
Or to be as aggressive as possible.
So this can go wrong with pop culture influence.
You have to pick sort of like the right archetype to follow after.
Rapacious.
Toxic masculinity like β all right.
But there are obviously counterexamples in pop culture of people who are doing the right thing with money or building long-term wealth or businesses.
Yeah.
Sort of still a little taboo.
So the audience reading your book, they're not going to become Beyonce.
No.
But like what are the things about that celebrity level of wealth, that tier that are applicable to everyone's lives or even if it's just conceptually?
Are you watching the new season of Euphoria?