Why Working-Class Voters Feel Left Behind, Wealth and Security, and How Scott Gives Money

Welcome to Office Hours with Prov G. This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind. If you'd like to submit a question for next time, you can send a voice recording to office IRS at property media dot com. Again, that's OfficeRS of Prophe Media dot com or Post your question on a Scott Galloway subreddit and we just might feature it on our next episode. First question our first question comes from Much Membership forty five dash o seven on Reddit they say Hey Scott, just a simple question. As a lower middle class man in his thirties,

I resonate a lot with your content. My question is this, why does it feel like no matter what or who you vote for, the people making the decisions are always against the normal everyday working person? Uh mostly because of Citizens United. Uh and a little bit gerrymandering. And that is Probably the greatest ROI in corporate America is to give money to a senator or a representative and say, All right

Americans pay four to eight times more for Ozempic or Hemira than people in other nations. Oftentimes we pay exponentially more for pharmaceuticals in the United States. I'm just using this as an example, despite the fact that many of these pharmaceuticals were invented here when we manufacture and distribute them here. So why do we pay more? Because pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies uh hospital complexes donate money to a congressperson and say, wouldn't it be great if we had a law that said Medicaid could negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies and get use their bold purchasing power to drive down the prices of pharmaceuticals and pass those on to American consumers. Well, okay. You want a law that We can't do that? Sure.

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