Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics: US
Mika Brzezinski argues that gut punches from COVID, school shootings, and political turbulence have made young people today significantly more risk-averse in their careers.
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Katty raises the persistent myth that women are risk-averse, and Mika acknowledges she does see less appetite for risk in the young people she hires — but attributes it less to gender and more to generational trauma. [1] — Mika Brzezinski "Mika Brzezinski sees a generation weighed down by pandemic trauma, gun violence, and political chaos — and it's making them reluctant to se…" 30:50 Young people today have been hit by a sequence of gut punches: a global pandemic, gun violence in schools, and a turbulent political landscape. The result, she argues, is a generation that lacks the hungry, eager, relentless follow-up energy that opens doors — the thank-you email, the first-thing-tomorrow availability. She worries this risk-aversion carries over into personal relationships too. And she sees it as the next challenge for the Know Your Value movement: helping young people find their fire again.
Mika Brzezinski sees a generation weighed down by pandemic trauma, gun violence, and political chaos — and it's making them reluctant to self-promote, take risks, and show the hungry-eye eagerness that opens doors. She's calling it her most urgent concern for the next generation of women.
Even when women do ask for raises, they tend to ask for less money than men on average, compounding the pay gap over a career.
Fewer entry-level women than men express the desire to be promoted, a gap that sets women back right from the beginning of their careers.
Mika acts out three ways she actually asked for pay raises — and failed. The apologetic approach, the personal-expenses sob story, and the aggressive finger-poke at the boss. All three backfired spectacularly and for the same reason: none of them came from a grounded sense of self-worth.
San Francisco's average rent rose 18% over the past two years to $3,728/month, surpassing New York City as the most expensive rental market in the country.
San Francisco's average monthly rent now stands at $3,728, surpassing New York City to become the most expensive rental city in the United States.
At a childhood sleepover, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises on his face and he walked 7 miles home on a dirt road before being picked up by Eric Purvis's mom.
In 1950, about 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty; today it's about 1 in 10, attributable to capitalist economic growth.
From 2021 to 2024, 6 million children fell below the poverty line in the US after the expanded child tax credit expired.
Private domestic infant and international adoptions typically cost $40,000 to $70,000, while foster care adoption is the most affordable route at $0 to $2,000.
Historically, only 40% of men have ever reproduced — Galloway uses this to argue that romantic success requires effort, not a hall pass.
Robby Hoffman is the 7th of 10 children raised in a Hasidic household in Montreal, where the family was poor and comedy was a survival mechanism.
Robby's Hasidic community had no concept of 'too soon' in comedy — if it was funny, you threw it, and if you bombed, your sibling told you immediately.
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