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The Problem With Men, with Scott Galloway | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast

This week author/entrepreneur Scott Galloway joins us to discuss the economic and social crises plaguing the world (okay, only some of them).

Apr 3, 20251h 26mWatch on YouTube

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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Scott Galloway on Struggling Young Men, Money, and Meaning

  1. Galloway argues that the post-WWII alliance order is being ripped up, calls Ukraine aid an excellent investment at about $60 billion a year, and says the bigger threat is an $800 billion annual deficit from tax cuts.
  2. He contends that American rights and democracy increasingly depend on wealth, that class matters as much as race in policy design, and that he favors adversity-based rather than race-based affirmative action.
  3. He says young men have fallen furthest fastest, citing male abandonment, suicide, addiction, gambling, porn and loneliness, and warns that men with no economic or romantic prospects are dangerous, mostly to themselves.
  4. The conversation debates why men don't step up for boys, covering absent fathers, family court, social taboos, and whether male friendship can substitute for romantic partnership.
  5. Galloway offers a three-part plan for young men (fitness, earning money, joining something bigger) plus exposure to rejection, and shares parenting views on garbage time, chores, and letting kids fail.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Learning to tolerate rejection is a core life skill

Galloway says he lost every student election and argues young men with low-risk relationships with bots, AI dolls or porn no longer tolerate hearing no. He says the key is realizing no isn't the worst thing in the world.

Ukraine spending is framed as smart capital allocation

Galloway says about $60 billion a year has degraded Russian military power without American boots on the ground, with 70 to 90 percent returning to US weapons manufacturing. He sets that against the $800 billion annual deficit from tax cuts, which he calls the real misdirect.

Wealth increasingly determines rights

He argues the rich are protected by the law but not bound by it, while the poor are bound but not protected. He says both parties have fostered a system transferring rights and money to the top 1%.

Class-based, not race-based, affirmative action

Galloway favors an adversity score like the University of California model, noting about 70% overlap with race and that wealthy children shouldn't get preference. Others on the panel stressed that race and class remain intertwined and that group-specific experiences matter.

A missing male role model is the key point of failure

He says boys with a single parent are far more likely to be incarcerated or die by suicide once they lose a male role model. He argues men should step in, calling an irrational interest in a child who isn't yours the ultimate expression of masculinity.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

The ultimate expression of masculinity, in my view, is to take an irrational interest in the wellbeing of a child that's not yours, and not enough men are doing this.

— Scott Galloway

the rich, right, are protected by the law, but they're not bound by it, and the poor in this country are, are bound by the law but not protected by it.

— Scott Galloway

The goal is the no, 'cause you get enough nos, eventually you're gonna get a yes.

— Scott Galloway

I think quality time was something invented by executives who weren't spending a lot of time with their kids. I think the key is garbage time.

— Scott Galloway

we're evolving a new species of asexual, asocial males, and they're the most dangerous people in the world.

— Scott Galloway

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Crisis facing young menMoney's corruption of American institutionsClass versus race in policyTechnology and gambling addictionLoneliness and datingMale role models and absent fathersParenting boys

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  • Scott Galloway

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    Business professor and public intellectual focused on economics, technology, and social trends.

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