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

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

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

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But NYU business-school professor and popular podcaster Scott Galloway decided to work backwards when drafting his latest book, " Adrift: America in 100 Charts": He selected 100 striking charts that highlight America's growing inequality from 1945 to the present day, then wrote about the findings. The banking sector is another example of the benefits of upheaval, not to mention a positive side of the internet. It’s certainly true that educational institutions offer degrees that may not lead to a high-paying career. Charts, graphs, and infographics examine various aspects of society, from commerce to our environment to our social lives, to explain what has changed and speculate on how those changes have altered our society. So while none of us likes upheaval or a crisis, we should learn to value the attitude of immigrants who learn to be flexible and take risks in changing times.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The ascent of the American economy after World War II, coupled with the advances of technology, brought unprecedented prosperity not just to the U. From 2008 to 2017, the number of adults who talk to their neighbors fell from 71 percent all the way down to 54 percent.God, I'm in awe of smart people, even if more often than not these days they just depress the hell out of me. I benefited from being born in a time and place of unprecedented prosperity with a host of advantages, most of them circumstantial. Not only was the author setting himself up to capture all of the issues in modern America with 100 charts (which is shockingly few when you really think about it), but he was also setting himself up to boil each of those 100 incredibly complex issues which he did choose down to 2-3 pages of text and a chart. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we’re faced with daunting questions – is our democracy under threat?

respectively, pretty much everyone else in the economy would pay a 14% tax rate, representing a tax cut of nearly 10% for the average American.While all this can be fun and useful, our lack of connection can’t be entirely replaced by social media – although that’s not stopping us from trying.

The problem is 1) Galloway fails to put those ideas all in a sequential paragraph, instead scattering them throughout the book, and 2) he constantly muddies the water with both observations irrelevant to his point and pat aphorisms. Between 2010 and 2015, Twitter’s monthly active user base grew tenfold, from 30 million to 300 million. I will be keeping this on my bookshelves with the intent to continually pick it up and refresh some of the information again. I also appreciate how, unlike other literature, Professor Galloway dedicates an entire section of the book to possible solutions to help mend the fabric of American society and elevate it back to a respectable Nation.

Adrift attempts to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway’s unique take on where we’re headed and who we’ll become, touching on topics as wide-ranging as online dating to minimum wage to the American dream. This should just be a 3-bar bar graph, perhaps with some mechanism to clearly show how miniscule the second two are. Morning shows in America spent almost as much time talking about a billionaire flying to space in July of 2021 as they did discussing the climate crisis in all of 2020. Minimum wage is not a one sentence issue, but its also not a 3 paragraph issue, and to act like you’ve just cracked the code with your 3 paragraphs and a graph comes across as so arrogant to me.

The charts and graphs provide insights into what we probably feel about our country but can't put our finger on.

His Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy / No Malice weekly blog, and Prof G YouTube channel reach millions worldwide. Galloway himself says in the conclusion “We are divided , angry and more of us feel disconnected” But he ends with a positive spin on his ocean-going allegory saying: “However landfall is there. We have increasingly less access to good information – even as social media companies drive us to divisive and anxiety-inducing content. In 1950, nearly 1 in 3 American non-farm workers was represented by a union, which gave them the ability to organize and exercise bargaining power against powerful employers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.



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