Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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The author says there’s no better time to graduate than in a recession because this leads to greater happiness. Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation – and how we got here.

Adrift seeks to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway's unique take on where America is headed and what it will become. Knowing a bit about Scott Galloway, I've expected some non-obvious data sets, interesting reasoning, and maybe even well-thought-through suggestions on what to do with that. The greatest assault on middle-class America’s prosperity may be the relentless, four-decade-long inflation in higher education. We've eliminated diseases, helped to get the AIDS epidemic under control, and made great strides in cutting poverty. But, and it's a big but, this book feels like Galloway's on a hellbent mission to show just how messed up the world can be.The inevitable question is: What degree of tolerance will we lose when we stop engaging with and integrating into our communities? There's a section in the book on fake news, and another on lack of trust in media, and statements like that fit here. It also took millions of hours of work from thousands of engineers and other wage earners, most of whom were the product of one of the largest government programs we have: public schools.

Scott Galloway is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, and a public speaker, author, and entrepreneur.Economic frustration is a good recipe for social unrest, and on a personal level, it’s not something you want to experience. Interesting concept, and I appreciate the approach of trying to break down some very complex economic issues with charts to illustrate. Friendship is dwindling — 15% of men and 10% of women have no close friends at all which are close to double the numbers reported 30 years ago. Aside from its obvious positives though, it’s increasingly hard to ignore all the downsides that the internet brings as well. Consider the iPhone: all of its core technologies flow from those public sector investments, from the chip at its heart to the GPS satellites and the global network on which it depends.