💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 Rob Henderson is the author of the best-selling, ‘Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class’. He is a columnist at The Free Press and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe among others. He is known for pioneering the concept of ‘luxury beliefs’, defining them as, “ideas and opinions that confer status on the affluent while inflicting costs on the lower classes.” Troubled by Rob Henderson: https://linktr.ee/robkhenderson #family #relationship #culture SPONSOR: Express VPN. Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/trigger/ and get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package! Go to https://givesendgo.com/ and raise money for anything important to you. Check out Barro’s campaign here: https://www.givesendgo.com/barro Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Introduction 00:31 Writing About Rob’s Incredible Life 06:33 How Rob’s Childhood Engendered Curiosity 11:34 How Background Influences Education 20:32 Sponsor Message: ExpressVPN 22:02 Society is Making Life Worse for Kids 28:10 Grasping For Identity & Connection 30:41 The Decline of the Working-Class Family 35:25 Is the Sexual Revolution to Blame? 42:21 Sponsor Message: GiveSendGo 43:38 Seeing Hopelessness in Children 49:23 Importance of Career Role Models 52:45 Breaking a Cycle of Poverty 57:06 Holding People Up to High Standards 1:02:00 Are We Failing the Next Generation? 1:06:50 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?