What Scott Galloway Gets Wrong About Capitalism and Socialism

Jeremy Mele
7 min readJul 4, 2019
Photo by James Mitchell for Flickr; https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesmitchell/6273922558

Scott Galloway is a man who has done well under capitalism. A Professor of Marketing at NYU, Galloway has a history of creating successful start-ups that sell for a lot of money. To a democratic socialist like myself, such a biography is not inherently impressive. After all, if profit is the arbiter of value, then we would have to say that many companies, regardless of the harm they…

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Jeremy Mele

Having survived grad school, I’ve decided that I need to keep writing or risk wasting $[redacted] on a philosophy degree of all things.