On the TED Radio Hour, NYU professor Scott Galloway says older Americans have failed to live up to the social contract between generations.
We talk a lot about income inequality, but we don't talk a lot about generational inequality.
But we have purposely transferred wealth and opportunity from young people to old people.
Generation Gaps.
That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
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There is this thing that you hear all the time, that flying used to be so much better than it is now.
Right, like, yeah, you got food, the seats were bigger.
Like, I know all this, but come on.
Was it really that fancy?
And then we heard about a place where we could see for ourselves what it could have been like.
The exhibit here is what it was like to fly.
We met up with Bob Vanderlinden, a longtime curator at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
And he's showing us an exhibit.
from the 50s and 60s, from what some people call the golden age of travel.
And the real star of this exhibit is a massive chunk of a decommissioned American Airlines plane from that time period.
So are we, are we allowed to, like, go on this thing?
Yes, you can.
Oh, I thought we were just going to go right now.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.