Scott Galloway Explains Why Young Men Should Vote for Kamala Harris | Pivot

1. SGScott Galloway0:00

   I don't think this is gonna come as a shocker to anyone, anybody, but I am officially endorsing, uh, Harris-Walz for president and vice president. And my prediction is that a Harris Administration would be, would be much better for young men. And I believe that young men are some of the last available swing voters because they don't traditionally vote. When they get excited, they vote. They almost always, or they disproportionally vote, at least until recently, for Democrats. So, I believe the new, kinda the swing voters are young men, and this is why I think young men would be better served, uh, voting for Vice President Harris, and that I encourage them to do so. And that is, I think it, everybody needs a code, whether it's from your religion, whether it's from the armed services, whether it's from your company, everybody needs kind of an anchor to hold onto and guide the millions of decisions they have to make in a complicated world. And I increasingly believe that young men, uh, can call on or what I'm hoping they can develop as a new code is a modern form of masculinity, and those three things are the following: being a, uh, a provider, a protector and a procreator. And I wanna go through each of these and why I believe the Harris, uh, Administration and policies would enable men to foot to those.

2. KSKara Swisher1:12

   Yeah, I like this. By the way, The Washington Post has yet to make one. Jeff Bezos, get off your ass and make one.

3. SGScott Galloway1:17

   There you go.

4. KSKara Swisher1:17

   But go ahead. I love that you're doing it too.

5. SGScott Galloway1:18

   Okay. So, provider. I think a decent place for any man to start is to take economic responsibility for, for his household. And now, that doesn't mean that-

6. KSKara Swisher1:27

   Mm-hmm.

7. SGScott Galloway1:27

   ... you're gonna get in the way of your wife or your partner who might be better at that money thing. When my partner was at Goldman Sachs and making more money than me, I tried to pick up the slack at home and not be threatened by it, and that is also taking economic responsibility. But a good starting point is that recognizing three in four women see economic viability as key to a mate. It's only one in four men about women. Unfortunately, I'm not talking about the way the world should be, but the way it is, men are disproportionately valua- evaluated on their economic viability. You need to be a provider. And under the Harris Administration, you're talking about, uh, an economic strategy that everyone from Goldman Sachs to basically every living Nobel Prize winner in economics is gonna say it's gonna, uh, winner, it's gonna result in greater growth. And with the Trump Administration as a young man, you are talking about what will effectively be the greatest tax increase in history on you, and it's the following. It'll be a deficit that will be triple than what would be under the Harris Administration. Why is a deficit the biggest tax in history on you? Because Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway will not be alive to pay back that deficit. You will have to pay it back. So, what young people haven't connected the dots on is that deficit spending is nothing but a tax on them, such that I can have champagne and cocaine now. You're gonna have to pay it back, not me. There are a variety of different economic plans, whether it's a housing credit, whether it's loans for small businesses, that are meant to put more money in the pockets of young people, specifically young men, and enable you to be a better provider. Protector. Your default setting as a man should be one of protection. You don't need to understand the nuance around illegal or undocumented workers, but when you see them being de- uh, demonized, your, your default setting should be to move to protection. You don't n- need to understand or agree with the trans community, but when you see them being demonized, your default should be as a protector. Real men break up fights in bars. They don't start them. Real men protect their country. They don't (clears throat) shitpost it. Harris and Walz have a much greater default setting around protection, and I especially think Vice President Walz presents a wonderful image as a man at being a protector, and that is... And I love the story of him hearing about the LGBT community at his high school, feeling bullied, and him enacting the football team to come to their aid. That is exactly what it means to be a man, to be a protector. And then finally, procreator. The most rewarding thing in life, and I'm not saying you have to do this to be happy, but the most rewarding thing I know in your life, Kara, and in my life has been raising children with a competent, loving partner. And I did not, when I saw my partner and the mother of my children at the Raleigh Hotel at the pool, I was not thinking that she'd be great at buying distressed properties and fixing them up, or she'd be a good person to save for her 401K. I had one thought, and that is, "I would really, really like to have sex with this person." And wanting to have sex with women and being successful at it and figuring out the nuance and the skills and the strength and the humor and showering and enduring the rejection and being funny and being kind such that you can have sex with women is a wonderful thing, and it's something you should be proud of. And your ability, your ability to be attractive to women will be easier under a Harris Administration. And if I did a survey around would young men like to have more or less sex, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them would say, "I would like to have more sex." And if you wanna have more sex, if you wanna have more sex, then we absolutely need to cauterize, reject, turn around this ridiculous notion that women are gonna have their bodily autonomy taken. Because if you wanna have random sex, and let's be clear, the majority (laughs) of relationships involve at some point maybe a little bit of alcohol and a little bit of random sex. If the woman is thinking about random sex and then says, "You know what? I might be in an emergency room parking lot unable to terminate a pregnancy even if I have sepsis because the doctor might go to jail," if I have to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, both you and her are gonna be economically disabled. The fastest way to have less sex is to let more people get on the Supreme Court and to take away women's bodily autonomy. So guys, you wanna get laid more? Make sure women have-

8. KSKara Swisher5:30

   Okay. (laughs)

9. SGScott Galloway5:30

   ... bodily autonomy. Let's review. Your ability to be a provider.

10. KSKara Swisher5:34

    (laughs) Okay.

11. SGScott Galloway5:35

    I'm very serious about this shit. I think sex is a wonderful thing.

12. KSKara Swisher5:38

    I know. I, I'm waiting.

13. SGScott Galloway5:38

    And the notion-

14. KSKara Swisher5:39

    Okay.

15. SGScott Galloway5:40

    ... that kids, young people are having less sex, it is terrible, and it is a wonderful thing.

16. KSKara Swisher5:45

    Mm-hmm.

17. SGScott Galloway5:45

    And the notion that you and your partner have to be much more thoughtful and scared of actually having sex is terrible for everybody. One, your ability to be a provider. Economic policies that make it easier for you to be economically responsible for your household. Two, a default setting around being a provider. And three, your ability to form a family at your pace with economic responsibility through bodily autonomy. All of these add up to, uh, Vice President Harris being nominated and elected for our president. So, if you are young man, I would encourage you to lean into your code around masculinity, and those, that code leads to one place, and that is a Harris Administration.

18. KSKara Swisher6:27

    Wow. That is, I have not heard that one. If you want to have sex, vote Harris. I like it. That's what we're saying. Correct?

19. SGScott Galloway6:34

    There you go.

20. KSKara Swisher6:35

    If I had to boil it down. (laughs) All right. That's an interesting and novel, uh, thing. I just like her. That's why I'm voting for her.

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