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#543 - Scott Galloway - Why Is This Generation Struggling So Much?

Modern Wisdom

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Social Media and Self-Reporting

In 2013 when social went on mobile, you saw skyrocketing levels of depression and self-harm. So the overabundance of information is especially appealing to people whose brains have developed enough to appreciate it and need it and want social structure. When you don't have the capacity to absorb the negative stuff or modulate it, which is exactly where teenagers are,. It results in an America that's between 1 and 4,000 parents every night who take their kid to the emergency room because they're scared to go sleep for fear of what might happen in the morning with their incredibly depressed 15 year old girl.

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