Scott Galloway

I said, if we want better men, we have to be better men. We have to get involved in a boy's life. And I'm like, they're everywhere. And Bill Maher said, whoa, I get involved in a 15-year-old boy's life and people are going to suspect me. We have to stop that. I've said Michael Jackson and the Catholic Church fucked it up for all of us.

There are a ton of good men out there, heterosexual and gay men. When I was applying to be a big brother in LA, basically the entire due diligence process was trying to figure out, in as polite a way possible, are you gay? And the reality is there's no more greater incidence of pedophilia among gay men than straight men.

There are a ton of good men out there, heterosexual and gay men. When I was applying to be a big brother in LA, basically the entire due diligence process was trying to figure out, in as polite a way possible, are you gay? And the reality is there's no more greater incidence of pedophilia among gay men than straight men.

So you want to check for evidence of pedophilia, but it doesn't matter what their sexual orientation is. And I think there's a lot of men out there. who, there's a great, I think it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film called Magnolia, and this bartender says, I have love to give, I just don't know where to give it.

So you want to check for evidence of pedophilia, but it doesn't matter what their sexual orientation is. And I think there's a lot of men out there. who, there's a great, I think it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film called Magnolia, and this bartender says, I have love to give, I just don't know where to give it.

I think there's a ton of really good men in their 20s and 30s and 40s who wouldn't mind hanging out with a young man or a teenager or a boy every once in a while, or including him in their family activities, but they feel like they're gonna be suspected of something. And then just going very meta, and I'd love to get Richard's reaction because this is one of the few topics we haven't talked about.

I think there's a ton of really good men in their 20s and 30s and 40s who wouldn't mind hanging out with a young man or a teenager or a boy every once in a while, or including him in their family activities, but they feel like they're gonna be suspected of something. And then just going very meta, and I'd love to get Richard's reaction because this is one of the few topics we haven't talked about.

When I think about, I worry that we're falling into the same trap we fall into with the middle class. I feel like sometimes the right believes that the middle class is a naturally occurring organism and it'll just heal on its own if you let the market do its own thing. The middle class is an accident. We had 7 million men return from World War II. They had proven heroism. They looked good.

When I think about, I worry that we're falling into the same trap we fall into with the middle class. I feel like sometimes the right believes that the middle class is a naturally occurring organism and it'll just heal on its own if you let the market do its own thing. The middle class is an accident. We had 7 million men return from World War II. They had proven heroism. They looked good.

They were in shape. They were in uniform. And we gave them a shit ton of money and formed the National Highway Transportation Act, the GI Bill. In sum, we made them very attractive to women. And then that set off the baby boom. And we had this incredible rush of prosperity where people had generous, loving households and said, let's bring women into this prosperity.

They were in shape. They were in uniform. And we gave them a shit ton of money and formed the National Highway Transportation Act, the GI Bill. In sum, we made them very attractive to women. And then that set off the baby boom. And we had this incredible rush of prosperity where people had generous, loving households and said, let's bring women into this prosperity.

Let's bring non-whites into this prosperity. And it kicked off this wonderful liberal society. But it took massive investment. And now there's this notion that the middle class will survive on its own, and it doesn't. I worry that the same... the same notion that men will figure it out on their own.

Let's bring non-whites into this prosperity. And it kicked off this wonderful liberal society. But it took massive investment. And now there's this notion that the middle class will survive on its own, and it doesn't. I worry that the same... the same notion that men will figure it out on their own.

Because if you look throughout history, what generally is the norm is a small number of men get all of the economic and all of the mating opportunities. 80% of women have reproduced, only 40% of men. So if we don't actively move in, and the reality is if you have a tribe of 50 men and 50 women and 30 of the men die, the tribe survives. If 30 of the women die, the tribe goes out of business.

Because if you look throughout history, what generally is the norm is a small number of men get all of the economic and all of the mating opportunities. 80% of women have reproduced, only 40% of men. So if we don't actively move in, and the reality is if you have a tribe of 50 men and 50 women and 30 of the men die, the tribe survives. If 30 of the women die, the tribe goes out of business.

So men have always been a little bit disposable. But if you don't weigh in and figure out a way to lift up young people through investment, we're going to go back to where we've been through most of our history. And that is life is awesome for a small number of men. And it is really difficult and awful for the majority and a violent place for the majority of them.

So men have always been a little bit disposable. But if you don't weigh in and figure out a way to lift up young people through investment, we're going to go back to where we've been through most of our history. And that is life is awesome for a small number of men. And it is really difficult and awful for the majority and a violent place for the majority of them.

I think the dissemination of kind of thought leadership or scaling people who might have interesting viewpoints, I think it's more important that I don't think that creates systemic structural change. I think systemic structural change, I think guys like Richard will play a role in highlighting the issue such that one, there's legislation that stops this transfer of wealth from young to old.

I think the dissemination of kind of thought leadership or scaling people who might have interesting viewpoints, I think it's more important that I don't think that creates systemic structural change. I think systemic structural change, I think guys like Richard will play a role in highlighting the issue such that one, there's legislation that stops this transfer of wealth from young to old.

And by the way, I wouldn't focus on young men. I would focus just on young people because it'd become too politically charged. to start giving money to young men. I think a tax holiday in Portugal, they basically said, because they were losing so many young people, between the ages of 20 and 30, there's a tax holiday.