Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Everyone, we'll go back to the show. Saga and I are excited to bring back previous Realignment guests, Scott Galloway.

He has a new book out today. It's called Adrift America in a hundred charts.

We also spoke with Scott back in December 2020. So if you enjoyed this episode, we definitely enjoy that old one as well.

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Thank you, Marshall. It's good to be here.

Yeah, it's good to see you again. Great to have you here. And I'm sure the folks of Breaking Ports are also going to enjoy this as well. Let's just start at the most basic level.

What does it mean for America to be a drift?

It's the it's the questions you know you're going to get that are the hardest. I think that a lot of a lot of the things that a

jealous can be can be fixed. I don't think we're lost, but I think that it's going to take we need we have very clear issues.

And that we've lost some of our mooring. I think our connection to each other. I think our appreciation for what it means to be American.

I think a recognition that we need to reinvest back in each other in America has diminished. And as a result, though we're adrift.

And a quick follow up on that address suggest to your point on more when was the last time do you think we were more as a society.

That's a tough one. I'm not sure there's a if I had to if I had to go to a specific time or unmooring, it would be in the early 70s where up until that point, wages had kept pace with productivity.

Every time productivity through innovation or a piece dividend or DARPA or whatever it might be or you know manufacturing whatever assembly line technology.

Our middle class as buttressed by wages shared proportionally in that productivity. And then something strange happened in the 70s.

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