The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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Sam Harris on The Democrats’ Far-Left Problem

Explore episode Aug 6, 2026

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Democrats, Cronyism, and the Chickens Coming Home to Roost

At 30:00 · chapter starts 28:10

The conversation takes a confessional turn as Galloway admits his own generation bears significant responsibility for the radicalization they're criticizing. The charge sheet: Boomers practiced cronyism while calling it capitalism, bailed out banks and socialized losses, spent an incremental $700 billion a year more on seniors while increasing children's spending by only $20 billion, and left the average 30-year-old 24% less wealthy than their parents' generation while the average 70-year-old grew substantially richer. Young people didn't invent their resentment — they accurately observed that the system which was supposed to benefit them had been captured. Harris accepts this framing but insists the biggest chickens are in Trumpistan: the reported $100,000-a-month scheme to sell early access to Truth Social posts for market front-running, combined with tariff policy that enriched the Trump family by billions, represents a level of corruption without precedent in American history. Both agree that Nancy Pelosi's investment returns of roughly 600% — against Buffett's 300% and the S&P's 200% — suggest systemic dysfunction on both sides, though Harris notes scale matters.

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