How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED

翻译人员: Sue Lu

My name is Scott Galloway,

我叫斯科特·加洛韦 （Scott Galloway），

I teach at NYU, and I appreciate your time.

在纽约大学任教， 谢谢你抽空来听我演讲。

I have 44 slides and 720 seconds.

我有 44 张幻灯片 和 720 秒的时间,

Let's light this candle.

那我们就开始吧。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

OK so for those of you who don't know me,

如果你不认识我，

I'm actually a global television store.

我是全球电视界的风云人物，真的。

True story.

过去三年里，我参与了四部电视系列片。

I've had four TV series in the last three years.

Two of them have been canceled before they were launched,

其中两部在播出前就被取消了，

and two were canceled within six weeks.

另外两部在播出六周内被取消。 让我们回顾一下。

Let's recap.

（视频）SG： 如果我们想为此注入活力，

(Video) If we want to juice this thing,

如果我们想要刺激经济增长， 彭博社，

if we want to put a cattle prod up the ass of the economy.

Bloomberg.

财经新闻中最值得信赖的名字，

The most trusted name in financial news.

Not for long.

但好景不长啦。

Andrew Yang: I'm going to do whatever I can for this country of ours.

(视频）杨安泽： 我会为我们的国家尽力而为。

Scott Galloway: Jesus, come on, dude, you’re 0 for two.

SG：拜托，伙计，你已输了两次了。

(Video ends)

（视频结束）

Face for podcasting.

SG：播客里熟悉的面孔。

So first insight of the day.

那么，今天的第一个顿悟是，

I'd like to be the first person to welcome you to the last TED.

我想第一个欢迎你莅临 最后一场 TED 大会。（笑声）

(Laughter)

OK.

By the way, it's clear -- what's it called?

顺便问下 ——这叫什么？ 我们来这儿干嘛的？

What are we here for?

“勇者与智者”？ （TED2024 大会主题）

“The Brave and the Brilliant?”

It's clear that Chris is a frustrated soap opera producer.

克里斯一定是受挫的肥皂剧制片人。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Essentially what we have here is a telenovela

其实我们这就像部肥皂剧，

where, after a night of unbridled passion

一夜激情之后，

between Bill Gates and Malcolm Gladwell,

比尔·盖茨和马尔科姆·格拉德威尔

they give birth to their bastard love child,

生下了他们的私生子，

Simon Sinek.

西蒙·西内克（Simon Sinek）。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

OK, I start us with a question.

好吧，让我先提个问题。

Do we love our children?

我们爱我们的孩子吗？

Sounds like an illegitimate question, right?

这听起来像废话，对吧？

Well, I'm going to try and convince you otherwise.

嗯，让我来试着说服你， 我们并不。

Essentially, as we go down generations,

实际上，随着几代人的发展，

we're seeing that for the last two generations,

我们却发现在过去的两代人中，

people are making less money on an inflation-adjusted basis.

按通胀率调整后，人们赚的钱越来越少。

In addition, the cost of buying a home,

此外，购房成本，

the cost of pursuing education, continues to skyrocket.

接受教育的成本，继续飞涨。

So the purchasing power, the prosperity, is inversely correlated to age.

因此，人们的购买力 和成功度与年龄成反比。

Simply put, as we get younger,

简而言之，随着年龄的增长，

we're taking away opportunity and prosperity from our youngest.

我们正在夺走年轻人的机会和繁荣。

The social contract that is now no longer in place

社会契约已不复存在，

and for the first time in the US's history,

这是美国历史上第一次，

a 30-year-old is no longer doing as well as his or her parents were at 30.

30 岁的年轻人还没有 他们父母 30 岁时过得好。

This is a breakdown in the fundamental agreement we have with any society,

这破坏了我们与社会达成的基本契约，

and it creates rage and shame.

并引发愤怒和羞耻感。 （掌声）

(Applause)

As a result, people over the age of 55 feel pretty good about America,

因此，55 岁以上的人感觉美国很好，

but less than one in five people under the age of 34

34 岁以下的人中只有不到五分之一

feel very good about America.

有同感。

This creates an incendiary.

这就会引发紧张局势、正义运动，

Righteous movements,

削弱社会，最终感染机会主义流毒。

cuts to our society end up becoming opportunistic infections

because generally speaking, young people have a warranted envy,

总之，年轻人有理由羡慕，

they're pissed off and they're angry

生气，甚至愤怒，

that they don't enjoy the same spoils and prosperity

因为他们享受不到同样的舒适和繁荣，

that were provided to our generation.

似乎那是我们这一代的专享。

A decent proxy for how much we value youth labor is minimum wage,

最低工资可以代表我们对 青年劳动力的重视程度，

and we've kept it purposely pretty low.

而我们有意将其保持在很低的水平。

If it had just kept pace with productivity,

如果它能与生产率的增速保持一致，

it'd be at about 23 bucks a share.

现在就该是每小时约 23 美元。

But we've decided to purposely keep it low.

但我们有意把它压得很低，不可理瑜。

Out of reach.

相对于中等家庭收入，中等房价飙升。

Median home price has skyrocketed relative to median household income.

As a result, pre-pandemic, the average mortgage payment was 1,100 dollars,

疫情前，平均 按揭付款额为 1,100 美元，

it's now 2,300 dollars

现在为 2,300 美元，

because of an acceleration in interest rates

这是由于利率加速增长，

and the fact that the average home has gone from 290,000 to 420.

房屋均价从 29 万涨到 42 万美元。

By the way, the most expensive homes in the world,

顺便，世界上最昂贵的房屋，

based on this metric, are number three, Vancouver.

按该指标，温哥华排名第三。为什么？

Why?

因为建房成本的 60％用于许可证。

Because 60 percent of the cost of building a home goes to permits.

Because guess what, the incumbents that own assets have weaponized government

另外，拥有资产的在位者利用政府职权

to make it very difficult for new entrants to ever get their own assets,

阻碍新入市者获取资产，

thereby elevating their own net worth.

从而提高在位者自己的净资产。

This is the transfer I'm going to be speaking about.

这就是我要讲的转移，

(Applause)

（掌声）

This has resulted in an enormous transfer of wealth,

巨大的财富转移。

where people over the age of 70

70岁以上的人

used to control 19 percent of household income,

过去控制了 19％的家庭收入，

versus people under the age of 40, used to control 12.

而 40 岁以下的人控制了 12％。

Their wealth has been cut in half.

如今年轻人的财富却被减少了一半，

This isn't by accident, it's purposeful.

并非偶然，而是有意为之。

This is me at UCLA in 1987.

这是 1987 年的我， 于加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）。

I know your first thought is I haven't changed a bit.

我知道你首先想到的是，我一点都没变。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

This is also Mia Silverio,

这是米娅·西尔维里奥，

who is the analyst who put together these slides.

整理这些幻灯片的分析师。 顺便，米娅 26 岁。

By the way, Mia is 26.

I did the math, just by virtue of her being in this audience,

我算了下，仅凭她也是现场听众，

it brings the average age of the entire conference down 11 days.

整个参会者的平均年龄 就被拉低了 11 天。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

When I applied to UCLA, the admissions rate was 76 percent.

当年我申请入读 UCLA 时， 录取率是 76% 。

Today, it's nine percent.

如今，只有 9% 。

I received a 2.23 GPA from UCLA.

我的 UCLA 平均分（GPA）是 2.27。

I learned nothing but how to make bongs out of household items

我什么也没学到， 除了学会用家居物品做水烟壶，

and every line from "Planet of the Apes."

以及背下《人猿星球》的每句台词。

And the greatest public school in the world, Berkeley,

而世界上最伟大的公立大学伯克利,

decided to let me in with a 2.27 GPA.

仅凭我 2.27 的 GPA 就录取了我。

And that's what higher ed is about.

这才是高等教育的意义所在。

Higher ed is about taking unremarkable kids

高等教育就是要培养平凡的孩子，

and giving them a shot at being remarkable.

给他们一个成就不凡的机会。

(Applause)

（掌声）

And every year it's gotten more expensive.

但每年一切都变得越来越昂贵。

Higher ed and homes and the ability --

高等教育、住房和能力 ——

not only is higher ed incredibly expensive,

高等教育不仅非常昂贵，

it's not accessible.

而且难以进入。

Because me and my colleagues are drunk on luxury,

因为我和我的同僚都沉迷于奢侈，

and I'll come back to that.

一会儿我再来谈这个问题。

We've embraced the ultimate strategy.

我们接受了终极策略。

Me and my colleagues in higher ed wake up every morning

我和我的高教同事每天早上醒来后，

and ask ourselves the same question when we look in the mirror.

对着镜子问自己同样的问题。

How can I increase my compensation while reducing my accountability?

如何赚得更多却担责更少？ （笑声）

(Laugter)

我们发现了终极策略，

And we have found the ultimate strategy.

It's called an LVMH strategy,

称为 LVMH 战略，

where we artificially constrain supply to create aspiration and scarcity

旨在人为限制供应 以制造渴求和短缺，

such that we can raise tuition faster than inflation.

这样就能让学费涨速比通胀更快。

And old people and wealthy people have done the same thing with housing.

老人和富人在住房上也用了同样的策略。

All of a sudden, once you own a home,

突然间，一旦你拥有了住房，

you become very concerned with traffic,

你就会非常关心交通状况，

and you make sure that there's no new housing permits.

并会尽自己所能 阻止新的住房许可证被批准。

And here is a memo to my colleagues in higher ed:

这是给我高教同僚们的忠告：

we’re public servants, not fucking Chanel bags.

我们是公务员， 不是他妈的香奈儿包包。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Harvard is the best example of this.

哈佛就是最好的例子。

They've increased their endowment in the last 40 years

在过去的 40 年中， 他们的捐赠基金大幅增长，

and have decided to expand their enrollment,

于是决定增加招生人数，

their freshman class, by four percent.

即多招 4 ％ 的新生。

Any university that doesn't grow their freshman class

但是，这些大学的招生增速 都应该超过人口增速，

faster than population

因为它们拥有超过十亿美元捐赠基金，

that has over a billion dollars in endowment

should lose their tax-free status

否则就不该享受免税待遇，

because they're no longer in higher education.

既然它们已不再属于高教机构，

They're a hedge fund offering classes.

而是提供教育的对冲基金。

(Cheers and applause)

（欢呼声和掌声）

My first recommendation:

我的第一条建议是：

Biden should take some of that 750 billion

拜登应该拿出 7500 亿美元经费中的一部分，

earmarked to bail out the one third of people that got to go to college

那些经费本来是用于 1/3 的人口的大学教育，

on the backs of the two thirds that didn't

另外 2/3 的人口 由此被剥夺了大学教育的可能，

and give a billion dollars to our 500 greatest public institutions,

所以，应该从经费中给前 500 名的 公立大学每一所拨款 10 亿美元，

size-adjusted, in exchange for three things.

按学校规模调整具体数额， 以换取三样东西。

One, they use technology and scale to reduce tuition by two percent a year,

第一，这些大学利用技术和规模 每年将学费减少 2％，

expand enrollments by six percent a year

将入学人数增加 6％，

and increase the number of vocational certifications

并将职业认证

and nontraditional four-year degrees by 20 percent.

和非传统四年制学位数量增加 20％。

Where does that get us?

这样做的后果是什么？

In just ten years,

只需短短十年，

in just ten years, that doubles the freshman seats

新生录取率就将翻一番，

and cuts the cost in half.

而学费减半。 这样做一点不算激进，

This isn't radical.

八、九十年代的大学就是这样的。

This is called college in the '80s and '90s.

Another transfer of wealth.

下面是另一种财富转移。

Look at what's happened to wages.

看看工薪怎么回事。 哦，长上去了？

Oh, they've gone up?

但没有企业利润长得多。

Not as much as corporate profits.

There's a healthy tension between capital and labor.

资本和劳动力之间存在健康的紧张关系。

But for the last 40 years, capital has been kicking the shit out of labor.

但过去 40 年， 资本一直在践踏劳动力。

Well, you think, what about wages, right?

你可能在想，工薪不是长上去了吗？

They've gone up.

但如果与标准普尔比较， 其涨幅几乎可以忽略不计。

Well if you compare them to the S and P, they barely register.

It's been an amazing time to own assets.

这是拥有资产的绝佳时机。

But your attempt to get the certification or the income

但是，为购置资产你得先有许可或收入，

such that you can acquire assets has gotten harder and harder.

这却变得越来越难。

In my class of 300 kids, it's never been easier to be a billionaire,

我班里有 300 名学生， 现在比任何时期都更易成为亿万富翁，

it's never been harder to be a millionaire.

但他们却很难成为百万富翁。

By the way, our job in higher ed

顺遍，高等教育的职责

isn't to identify a top one percent of people

不是找出拔尖的 1%，

who are freakishly remarkable or have rich parents

比如那些出类拔萃之辈或富家子弟，

and turn them into a super class of billionaires.

然后将他们培养为超级阶层的亿万富翁，

It's to give the bottom 90 a chance to be in the top ten.

而是应该帮助底层的 90% 进入顶尖的 10%。

(Applause)

（掌声）

You know who doesn't need me or higher education?

你知道谁不需要我或者高等教育吗？

The top 10 percent.

顶尖的 10%。

The whole point of higher ed is to give the unremarkables, i.e. yours truly,

高教的意义就在于给平凡人，如我，

who was raised by a single immigrant mother,

由单身移民母亲养大的孩子，

a shot of being remarkable.

一个出类拔萃的机会。

The transfer has been purposeful.

这种转移是蓄意的。

While the cohorts, corporations and the ultra-wealthy

尽管那些群体、企业和超级富豪

continue to garner more and more of our wealth,

继续获取越来越多我们的财富，

we have decided, "I know, if they win the gold,

我们却拱手相让： “好吧，如果他们赢得了金牌，

let’s give them the silver and the bronze, and let’s lower their taxes.”

把银牌铜牌也给他们， 并降低他们的税款吧。”

This transfer is purposeful.

这种转移是目的明确的，

It’s not by accident, and it works.

并非巧合，且行之有效。

Senior poverty is way down, and we should celebrate that.

老年人贫困率大幅下降，值得庆贺；

Meanwhile, child poverty is flat to up.

但儿童贫困率没有改善甚至更糟。

The third rail.

第三点，

I'm going to talk about Social Security.

我要谈谈社会保障。

It would cost 11 billion dollars to expand the child tax credit.

扩大儿童税收抵免将耗资 110 亿美元，

But that gets stripped out of the infrastructure bill.

于是被从基础设施法案中删除了。

But the additional 135 billion dollars a year to Social Security,

但每年额外的 1350 亿美元社保费用，

that flies right through Congress.

却能在国会轻松通过。

And every year we transfer 1.4 trillion dollars

而且，我们每年将 1.4 万亿美元

from a cohort that is increasingly doing less well

从一个境况越来越差的群体

to the cohort that is the wealthiest cohort

转移到最富有的群体，

in the history of this planet.

该群体前所未有的富有。

I'm not against Social Security, but the criteria should be if you need it,

我并不反对社保， 但标准应该是你是否需要它，

not whether you have a catheter.

而不是你是否插有导尿管。

80 percent of you,

观众里 80% 的人，

80 percent of you have absolutely no reason

绝对没有理由

to ever take Social Security.

领取社保。

It is bankrupting our nation.

国家都快因此破产了。

And we have fallen under this mythology

我们已陷入这种神话之中，

that somehow it's this great social program.

以为它是很棒的社保计划，完全不对，

No it's not.

这是财富从年轻人到老年人的大转移。

It's the great transfer of wealth from young to old.

(Applause)

（掌声）

How is this happening?

为什么会如此？

Because our representatives are in fact, representative.

因为我们的代表确实很有代表性，

Old people vote.

投票者大多是老年人。

Washington has become a cross

华盛顿已然成了一个交汇处，

between the "Land of the Dead" and "The Golden Girls."

在《死亡之地》和《黄金女郎》之间游移。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Quite frankly, this is fucking ridiculous.

坦率地说，这太荒谬了。

And if I sound ageist --

如果我听起来像年龄歧视者——

(Applause)

（掌声）

If I sound ageist, I am.

如果我听着像年龄歧视者，我就是。

And you know who else is ageist?

你知道还有谁是年龄歧视者吗？

Biology.

生物学。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

When Speaker Pelosi had her first child,

议长佩洛西（Pelosi）生下老大时，

get this, two thirds of households didn't have color televisions,

2/3 的家庭还没有彩色电视，

and Castro had just declared martial law.

卡斯特罗刚刚（在古巴）宣布戒严令。

But she's supposed to understand

所以，她能理解

the challenges of a 17-year-old girl who’s 5′ 9", 95 pounds,

身高 5 英尺 9 英寸、体重 95 磅的 17 岁女孩子面对的挑战，

getting tips on dieting and extreme dieting from Facebook?

以及从脸书获取极限节食等建议吗？

She's supposed to understand the challenges

她能明白那些

that a 27-year-old single mother faces?

27 岁单身母亲面对的挑战吗？

By the way, young and dreamy.

顺便，看看这位，年轻而充满梦想。

(Laughter)

（笑声） 年轻而充满梦想。

Young and dreamy.

(Applause)

（掌声）

The great intergenerational theft took place under the auspices of a virus.

这场大规模跨代窃取 是在病毒的掩护下展开的。

I know, let's use the greatest health crisis in a century

利用一个世纪以来最大的健康危机

to really speed-ball the transfer.

来加速财富转移。

This is the Nasdaq from 2008 to 2012.

这是 2008 年至 2012 年的 纳斯达克综合指数，

We let the markets crash.

我们任市场崩溃。

And by the way, you need churn,

顺便，市场需要剧烈震动，

you need disruption because it seeds and recalibrates advantage and wealth

需要颠覆，这样才能 重置和调整优势及财富，

from the incumbents to the entrants.

将其从现有者转移给新生代。

It's a natural part of the cycle.

这是一个顺其自然的循环。

But wait, lately, no,

等等，现在却非如此了。

a million people dying would be bad.

一百万人垂死挣扎很糟。

But what would be tragic is if we let the Nasdaq go down

但让纳斯达克指数一路下跌也很惨，

and guys like me lost wealth.

像我这样的人就会不再富有。

So we pumped the economy,

所以，我们就刺激经济，

which again, increased the massive transfer of wealth.

再次增加财富的大规模转移。

The best two years of my life?

我一生中最美好的两年？

Covid -- more time with my kids, more time with Netflix,

新冠时期——更多时间陪伴孩子， 更多时间看奈飞（Netflix），

and the value of my stocks absolutely exploded.

同时我的股票暴涨。

And who has to pay for my prosperity?

谁被迫为我的繁荣买单呢？

Not me.

当然不是我。

Future generations who will have to deal with an unprecedented level of debt.

子孙后代将被迫承担前所未有的债务。

Why am I here, and why do I get the prosperity I enjoy?

为什么我能有今天，能够享受一切繁荣？

Because in 2008 we bailed out the banks,

因为在 2008 年我们救助了银行，

but we didn't bail out the economy.

却没有救助经济。

We let the markets fall.

我们让股市下跌。

So as I was coming into my prime income-earning years,

所以，当我步入赚取收入的黄金时期，

I got to buy, no joke, these stocks at these prices.

我就能买到这些低廉股票，不开玩笑。

This is where those stocks are now.

这是这些股票现在的价位。

Where does a young person find disruption?

年轻人到哪去找颠覆的机会呢？

When you bail out the baby boomer owner of a restaurant,

当你救助婴儿潮一代的餐馆老板时，

all you're doing is robbing opportunity from the 26-year-old graduate

你就是抢夺了 26 岁的毕业生

of a culinary academy that wants her shot.

从烹饪学院毕业后需要的成功机会。

We need disruption.

我们需要颠覆。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I just like this slide.

我很喜欢这张幻灯片，

It has no context or relevance.

尽管它和今天的演讲没啥关联。

(Laughter and cheers)

（笑声和欢呼声）

We're economically attacking the young,

我们在经济上攻击年轻人，

同时为何不也打击下 他们的情感和心理健康呢？

but I know, let's attack their emotional and mental well-being.

Let's take advantage of the flaws in our species

我们在利用人类物种的缺陷，

with medieval institutions, Paleolithic instincts

将中世纪的机构、旧石器时代的本能

and godlike technology.

和神一般的科技发扬光大。

I'm just going to say,

我要说，

I think Mark Zuckerberg has done more damage to the young people in our nation

马克·扎克伯格 对我国的年轻人造成很多伤害，

自己却赚得史无前例的盆满钵满。 （掌声）

while making more money than any person in history.

(Applause)

等等，或许可能更糟。

Oh, but wait, it could be worse.

我们让对手在 年轻人的脑中植入了芯片

It's as if we let an adversary implant a neural jack into our youth

to raise a generation of civic, military

培养一代憎恨美国的 公民，军人以及商界领袖。

and business leaders that hate America.

How can we be this stupid?

我们怎么会如此愚蠢？

(Laughter)

This all adds up to a bunch of graphs all headed up into the right.

造成这一切的问题就在上涨的图表中。

And what are they?

都是些什么图表呢?

第一个图是什么？自残率， 其数量在女孩中暴增。

What's the first one?

Oh, that's self-harm rates, which have exploded,

especially among girls since my colleague Jonathan Haidt pointed out,

我同事乔纳森·海特（Jonathan Haidt） 指出，手机社交媒体令其火上浇油。

it's really, really gone crazy since social went on mobile.

What's the next one?

下一个是青少年抑郁症。 再接着是关于男女缺乏性生活。

Teens with depression.

The next one, men and women not having sex.

Biggest fear of my parents was that I was going to get in too much trouble.

我父母曾最担心我会惹祸太多。

老实说，我最大的担心

My biggest fear, honestly,

是我的孩子不会惹祸太多。

is that my kids aren't going to get into enough trouble.

我建议每个观看该节目的年轻人，

My advice to every young person watching this program

走出去，多喝点酒，做些糟糕的决定，

is go out, drink more and make a series of bad decisions

从中学到关于生活。

that might pay off.

(Laughter and applause)

（笑声和掌声）

Next graph, cumulative gun deaths.

下一个图，累计枪击死亡人数。

You're more likely to be shot in the United States

在美国被枪杀的可能性更大的

if you're a toddler or an infant than a cop.

是婴幼儿而非警察。

Next graph, obesity, way up.

下一个图，肥胖症，上升幅度很大。

By the way, the industrial food complex wants to addict you to shitty, fatty foods

工业化食品集团想让你 对低劣油腻食物上瘾，

so they can hand you over to the industrial diabetes complex.

好把你交给糖尿病治疗集团。

We should not romanticize obesity.

我们不应该美化肥胖症，

它不会帮你找到真实的自我，

You're not finding your fucking truth.

You're finding diabetes.

而是找到糖尿病。

(Laughter and applause)

（笑声和掌声）

Overdose deaths, way up.

吸毒过量死亡人数大幅上升。

Deaths of despair.

绝望之死。

我高中那阵，导致死亡的是酒后驾车，

When I was in high school, it was drunk driving,

now it's kids killing themselves.

现在是孩子们自杀。

年轻人再也不想生小孩了。

Young people don't want to have kids anymore.

2/3 的 30 - 34 岁身体健全的人

Two-thirds of people aged 30 to 34, able-bodied,

used to decide to have at least one child.

过去至少生一个孩子，

现在减少了一半，

It's been cut in half.

It's now less than a third, 27 percent.

生孩子的人不到 1/3，即 27％。

As a result, people over the age of 60 in the US, pretty happy.

结果，美国 60 岁以上的人很幸福，

People under the age of 30, not so much.

30岁以下的人，没那么快乐。

Some of the lowest in the free world.

幸福指数是自由世界中最低之一。

What can we do?

怎么来改变？

Nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed with what's right with it.

美国的问题可以用美国的优势来解决。

我们已经解决了棘手的问题。

We got the hard stuff figured out.

所有这些问题都有相应的计划来应对，

There are programs to address all of these issues,

不过要花很多钱，这是最难的部分，

they cost a lot of money, that's the hard part.

但我们也解决了。

And we have figured this out.

在财报电话会议后的五分钟内，

In just five minutes post an earnings call,

我们就能为经济增加 2.5 万亿美元。

we can add a quarter of a trillion dollars to the economy.

我们已解决了最难的部分，资源。

We've got the hard part figured out, the resources.

We have the money, but we decide not to do it.

我们有资金，却决定不作为。

This is per-capita spending on child care in the United States

这是美国人均儿童保育支出，

relative to other nations.

与其他国家的比较。

这是建房许可数据。

This is housing permits.

Things are doable.

我们的办法是可行的。

We increase minimum wage at 25 bucks an hour,

将最低工薪提高到每小时 25 美元，

it goes into the economy.

这些钱会进入经济循环。

The wonderful things about low- and middle-income households

低等和中等收入家庭的一个好处是，

is they spend all their money.

他们通常会花掉所有的钱。

We have to have or restore a progressive tax structure

我们必须建立或恢复累进税收结构，

with alternative minimum tax on corporations and wealthy individuals.

对公司和富人征收替代性最低税。

We need to refund the IRS.

我们需要重新向国税局提供资金。

我们需要改革社会保障,

We need to reform Social Security.

It should be based on whether you need the money,

社保的提供应取决于你的需求，

而不是你的年龄。

not on how old you are.

We need a negative income tax.

我们需要建立负收入税。

My friend Andrew Yang screwed up a great idea,

我的朋友杨安泽 搞砸了一个很棒的主意，

他给它贴错了标签。

but he branded it incorrectly.

Instead of calling it UBI,

他不该称其为全民基本收入（UBI），

he should’ve got Republicans on board by calling it a negative income tax.

而应称其为负收入税， 这样就能得到共和党人的支持。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

We need to eliminate the capital gains tax deduction.

我们需要取消资本利得税减免。

When did we decide that the money that capital earns

我们何时决定的，资本赚的钱

is more noble than the money that sweat earns?

比汗水赚的钱更高尚？

Shouldn't it be flipped?

不是应该反过来的吗？

(Applause)

（掌声）

我们需要取消保护 所有算法推荐内容的第 230 条款。

We need to remove 230 protection for all algorithmically-elevated content.

We need identity verification.

我们需要身份验证。

The reason we can have identity verification

我们之所以能够进行身份验证

is because we have a First Amendment.

是因为我们有第一修正案。

Break up Big Tech.

应该拆散大型科技公司，

其垄断造成日益增多的成本开销，

We have monopolies that are incurring greater and greater costs

压在小型企业和家长们身上。 同样的原因造成这种局面，

on every small business and parents because again, see above,

our representatives don't understand these technologies.

那就是，我们的代表不懂这些科技。

We need to age-gate social media.

我们需要对社交媒体设置年龄限制。

There's absolutely no reason anyone under the age of 16

绝对没有理由让 16 岁以下的人

should ever be on social media.

使用社交媒体。

(Applause)

（掌声）

我们需要普惠的学前班。

We need universal pre-K.

We need to reinstate the expanded child-tax credit.

我们需要恢复扩大儿童税收抵免。

We need term limits, see above, Andrew Yang.

我们需要限制任期， 也是杨安泽提到的。

We need income-based affirmative action.

我们需要基于收入的平权行动。

Any visible signs of affirmative action make no sense at all.

任何明显的平权措施都毫无意义。

You would rather be born gay or non-white,

你宁愿生来就是同性恋或非白人，

in the United States today than poor.

也不愿当穷人，尤其在今天的美国。

And that's a sign of our progress

这是我们进步的标志，

and our need to recalibrate who we give advantage to.

也表明我们需要重新调整 提供优势的对象。

平权行动，我是它的受益者——

Affirmative action, of which I’m a beneficiary --

I got Pell Grants, I got unfair advantage --

我得到了佩尔补助金， 我得到了不公平的优势——

平权行动很棒，但它应该基于颜色：

affirmative action is a wonderful thing, and it should be based on color:

it should be based on green.

以绿色为基础；

How much money you have or don't have.

并且以个人财富为基础。

Expand college enrollment in vocational programs.

扩大大学的职业课程招生人数。

Mental health, ban phones in schools, invest in third places,

心理健康，禁止在学校使用手机， 投资开发社区公共社交场所，

Big Brothers and Sisters programs.

还有大哥哥大姐姐项目。

We need national service.

我们需要国民服务。

我们需要告诉美国和加拿大人，

We need to tell people in the United States and Canada

that they live in the greatest countries in the world,

他们生活在世界上最伟大的国家，

and we need to remind them of that every day

我们需要每天提醒他们这点，

by exposing them to other great Americans where they feel connective tissue.

并让他们接触了不起的美国人， 从而感受到联结和共鸣。

We can do all of this.

我们可以做到所有这些，

We can do all of it.

没问题的，

We have the resources.

我们有足够的资源，

The question is, do we have the will?

但我们有这个意愿吗？

This is my last slide.

这是最后一张幻灯片，

It is an emotionally manipulative slide to try and get you to like me more.

一张情感操纵幻灯片，好让你更喜欢我。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

But it does have a message.

但它确实在传达一个信息，

This is the whole shooting match.

是整个事情的关键。

你们没孩子的可以问下有孩子的。

Anybody here without kids, ask someone with kids.

You have your world of work,

你有自己的工作世界、

you have your world of friends, you have your world of kids.

朋友圈、与孩子共处的世界。

Something happens here, your whole world shrinks to this.

但如果发生什么不幸， 你的整个世界就会萎缩到这么一点。

（掌声）

(Applause)

So I present, as I wrap here, with just a few questions.

因此，在结束时，我只想提几个问题。

One,

第一，

if you acknowledge that our kids are the most important thing in our lives,

如果你承认孩子是我们生命中最重要的，

that everything else we do here is meaningful,

我们做的一切都是有意义的，

but our kids' well-being and prosperity is profound.

我们孩子的福祉和繁荣意义深远；

If you acknowledge that they're doing more poorly

如果你承认他们的生活

than previous generations.

比前几代人更差；

If you believe there’s a chance

如果你相信很可能

that the illusion of complexity has done nothing but provide cloud cover

复杂性的假象只是为了掩盖

for the unbelievable transfer of good will,

难以置信的转移，

of well-being and of prosperity from young to old.

既将好意、福祉和繁荣 从年轻人到老年人手中的转移。

And if you believe we can actually fix these problems

如果你相信我们能够解决这些问题，

and we have the resources,

而且我们有足够的资源，

then I present to you, I posit,

那么我假设，

我预言，我希望这个问题

I augur the question that I hope has more veracity

than it did 17 minutes and 24 seconds ago.

比 17 分 24 秒前更加真实。

下面就是我的问题。

And that's the following question.

我们爱我们的孩子吗？

Do we love our children?

我叫斯科特·加洛韦，

My name is Scott Galloway,

I teach at NYU, and I appreciate your time.

我在纽约大学任教， 感谢你抽空过来。

（欢呼和掌声）

(Cheers and applause)

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）