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At the heart of the so-called American Dream is this promise that if you work hard, you'll

be better off than your parents were, and your kids will be too.

They'll be better off than you.

50 years ago, this was true for most people.

Nine out of 10 Americans were out earning what their parents were at age 30.

Nowadays though, it's a coin toss, it's 50-50.

It really is a fundamental breakage in the deal we have with each other and the deal we

have in a society.

Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at NYU.

That's sort of what a society is supposed to do.

That's the deal.

I buy by laws, I work hard, I pay my taxes, and my kids will have the opportunities

that on average are bigger and better than mine.

Scott sees healthy economies as being like sailing ships powered by the middle class.

But he says that today, America, like some other rich countries, is kind of spinning

in circles.

Scott Galloway's new book Adrift America in 100 Charts is like a bleak PowerPoint presentation.

Chart after chart hits you with these ways that the US is strayed from the model of shared

prosperity over the last several decades.

So today on the show, a conversation with Scott Galloway on the most incisive statistics

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