Scott Barry Kaufman

Well, this is the million-dollar question. You'd get the Nobel Prize if you figured out exactly what was happening. But there seems to have been a cultural shift among youth where – and Jean Twenge has done a great analysis of this in her book Generations – Prior generation, high self-esteem and grandiose narcissism was the major form of entitlement, which is we're the best.

Well, this is the million-dollar question. You'd get the Nobel Prize if you figured out exactly what was happening. But there seems to have been a cultural shift among youth where – and Jean Twenge has done a great analysis of this in her book Generations – Prior generation, high self-esteem and grandiose narcissism was the major form of entitlement, which is we're the best.

We're the best generation and they're proud and happy about being superior. But now the entitlement, you get special privileges for saying you've suffered and So it has become a vulnerable form of entitlement that is being incentivized more than prior generations. It's an interesting question. I think a social media must play some role in that.

We're the best generation and they're proud and happy about being superior. But now the entitlement, you get special privileges for saying you've suffered and So it has become a vulnerable form of entitlement that is being incentivized more than prior generations. It's an interesting question. I think a social media must play some role in that.

We're the best generation and they're proud and happy about being superior. But now the entitlement, you get special privileges for saying you've suffered and So it has become a vulnerable form of entitlement that is being incentivized more than prior generations. It's an interesting question. I think a social media must play some role in that.

There's some sort of feedback mechanism where that seems to be what gets more attention and gets more likes. I mean, when we deal with the attention economy, like we're doing with social media, you start to see certain things start to get magnified and certain things start to compound.

There's some sort of feedback mechanism where that seems to be what gets more attention and gets more likes. I mean, when we deal with the attention economy, like we're doing with social media, you start to see certain things start to get magnified and certain things start to compound.

There's some sort of feedback mechanism where that seems to be what gets more attention and gets more likes. I mean, when we deal with the attention economy, like we're doing with social media, you start to see certain things start to get magnified and certain things start to compound.

that maybe we didn't even that weren't as prominent in the past but you just don't get as many likes if you're not being polarizing and if you're not talking about some sort of victimhood I remember I think it's in the happiness hypothesis that

that maybe we didn't even that weren't as prominent in the past but you just don't get as many likes if you're not being polarizing and if you're not talking about some sort of victimhood I remember I think it's in the happiness hypothesis that

that maybe we didn't even that weren't as prominent in the past but you just don't get as many likes if you're not being polarizing and if you're not talking about some sort of victimhood I remember I think it's in the happiness hypothesis that

And he gets a lot of shit for it. He gets tons of shit from it. He says the only way he ever finds out about it is when I forward them to him.

And he gets a lot of shit for it. He gets tons of shit from it. He says the only way he ever finds out about it is when I forward them to him.

And he gets a lot of shit for it. He gets tons of shit from it. He says the only way he ever finds out about it is when I forward them to him.

I want to think this through. Is it contributing to what?

I want to think this through. Is it contributing to what?

I want to think this through. Is it contributing to what?

See, Sam is such an oddball in the human species. He's willing to say what he believes to be true regardless of the cause.

See, Sam is such an oddball in the human species. He's willing to say what he believes to be true regardless of the cause.

See, Sam is such an oddball in the human species. He's willing to say what he believes to be true regardless of the cause.