George Hahn
Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.
“We need to add more seats, not reallocate our elites across a zero-sum game kept static by universities that aspire to be Chanel bags versus public servants.”
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
Context
George Hahn reading Scott Galloway's essay "Boys to Men"; the words are Galloway's. In this section he argues taxpayers should push colleges to expand freshman seats rather than fight over admissions.
Transcript
…from one in three in 1980. It's a vicious cycle. As the fewer male teachers boys see, the less interested they become in pursuing teaching themselves. Lacking male exemplars of strength, kindness, and generosity, boys look elsewhere for models. Like Andrew Tate, the global alpha male sensation.
Women should clean up. Not only should women clean up, women should clean up unprompted. Why is your lazy ass not doing the right thing?
…apprentice. Building program. Four-year colleges are still and will likely always be a tangible path to upward mobility. We should use the leverage we have over them as their primary financiers, i.e., taxpayers, to break a corrupt higher ed cartel and expand freshman seats. I wrote about this two weeks ago. Our fight over affirmative action and legacy admissions misses the forest for the trees. We need to add more seats, not reallocate our elites across a zero-sum game kept static by universities that aspire to be Chanel bags versus public servants. The vaccine to keep boys from becoming broke, lonely men is a stable childhood with male role models. Typically, that means two loving parents with reliable income and enough free time to spend with their kid. In 1960, roughly 5% of American children were born to unmarried mothers. Today, that number is 40%. Between 1975 and 2020, the share of children living without one or both of their parents…
Scott, can you explain to us how demographics impact a country's creditworthiness? Well, in this instance, I mean, essentially, young populations are just more productive because old people want to stop working and relax, and they require more government assistance because they get sick and they…
a country.
The population bomb predicted in the 70s was half right. It has detonated, but it was an implosion. Democracy and capitalism need household formation, which means they need more economically and emotionally viable menu. To partner with women who've registered exceptional hard-fought gains. One of…
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