Scott Galloway on the Wealth Gap: The 1% Are Living a Different Life

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]The delta in having money, having a decent having a middle class life and an upper class was like this. Now the delta is this.

[00:00:09]>> Looks like a >> air transportation. Flying on Spirit Airlines is a humiliating dangerous experience. United Airlines economy economy comfort economy plus business class first class. Oh wait, that's not enough. Let's go to private. There's charter, there's fractional. There's a Cessna Citation, there's a Bombardier Challenger 300, there's a Global 650.

[00:00:29]Now there's a new G6.

[00:00:30]>> Delta in your life, in your health care.

[00:00:33]My mom was very sick when I was very young. And when I think about how humiliating it was for the two of us having her to endure cancer when we were under insured it was a devastating traumatic humiliating experience. The bottom 99% of Western societies are essentially being optimized and monetized to make the life of the 1% just unbelievable.

[00:00:55]The life you can lead in the 1% is so dramatic and so incredible. Broader selection of head of mates, your kids have better health care, better educational opportunities, you have influence.

[00:01:06]People want to know you.

[00:01:07]>> So you can see how incrementally this path to Darth Vader is pretty tempting.