Josh Brown

this is the financial zeitgeist right now for a lot of millennials and a lot of Gen Z. And they're sort of in some way defined by this sense of hopelessness.

And the thing that I think about

Is like the externality of people feeling that way leads to two things that I think are not great.

One is electing socialists who have easy answers like vote for me.

I'll just give you free stuff.

It'll be fine.

But also like these nihilistic financial behaviors like like daily aggressive options trading or sports betting in place of long term investing.

I think the urgency for your book, Future Rich Person is about exactly that.

teaching people to become part of the capital class rather than leading a protest against it.

Like if you can't beat them, join them.

And if we can turn the kids into capitalists early, it doesn't solve all their problems right away, but it puts them on a path so that they're not out marching with signs or electing people who make bullshit promises to them.

And so I think there's a lot of urgency to your message right now for that generation.

Yeah.

Is that the way you think about it?

Do you see it as urgently as I do?

Or was that part of why you felt like I really have to get this stuff into writing?

Okay.

What's the central rule of old finance that you felt had to be broken or redefined for this generation?

Like what's that thing where you said, all right, it is a system for rich people.

You're not going to change that.