Six Chart Sunday

6 Infographics from the week + 1 interview (Neil Howe on The Fourth Turning)

1.    Meanwhile, in an alternate universe… get ready to enter the Deepfake Dimension.

2.    Mars / Venus: Massive & growing gender polarization in Gen-Z… and it’s global (so not simply the “Dobbs decision”)

3. U.S. wealth gap grows: In 2020 the top 1% of households overtook the middle 60% in wealth (currently 26.5% of all wealth for the top 1% of citizens vs 26% for the middle 60%).

4.    Teamwork makes the dream work: Remarkably little turnover in the Biden Cabinet so far.

5.    Throw the Bums Out… but not mine: Just as Americans rate their own financial well-being much higher than they rate the national economy’s health (78% to 24% in 2021), U.S. voters are >2x as likely to believe their own representative merits reelection vs “most members of Congress.”

6.    Snowflakes: Even a hint of snow closes schools south of DC (and oddly in the Pacific Northwest?!)

VIDEO

Neil Howe, author of “The Fourth Turning is Here,” discusses why America has entered a crisis era and what history tells us about how and when it will end.