Bruce Cannon Gibney is a venture capitalist and writer. An early investor in PayPal, he later joined Founders Fund, where he and his colleagues funded Facebook, Spotify, Palantir Technologies, Elon Musk's SpaceX, Airbnb, Lyft, and other start-ups.
"[Gibney] has a wry, amusing style and plenty of well parsed
statistics to back him up ... Read A Generation of
Sociopaths and hope for the best. Gibney is more optimistic
than those who predict an imminent third world war, than the
scientists who warn of sudden climate shifts and the end of
antibiotics, and even - in one sense - than the evangelicals who
believe in the Rapture. He also has a better sense of humor."--Jane
Smiley, The Guardian
"[Gibney] maintains that the Boomer Generation, privilege
incarnate, exhibit all the traits associated with that clinical
pathology: 'deceit, selfishness, imprudence, remorselessness,
hostility, the works.' He argues the case well."--Toronto
Star
"Like Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First
Century, Bruce Cannon Gibney's A Generation of
Sociopaths proceeds from a deceptively simple premise: that
the gains made by the American middle class in the period after the
world wars of the previous century were a fluke.... A damning,
searingly relevant indictment."--The Globe and Mail
"Remarkable .... Impressively weighted with hard numbers and
specifics, the volume serves as both an indictment of and rebuttal
to a Woodstock Generation that has gleefully celebrated themselves
for decades while gradually running the country into the ground ...
Gibney paints a persuasive and frequently hilarious portrait of the
Me Generation."--Men's Journal
"Sure to be controversial."--Fortune
"The core of Gibney's argument, that the boomers are guilty of
'generational plunder, ' is spot-on. He accuses them of 'the mass,
democratically-sanctioned transfer of wealth away from the young
and toward the Boomers, ' and he's right."--Dana Milbank,
Washington Post
"Informative, provocative, and entertaining reading for those
interested in political economy and U.S. social and economic
history."--Booklist
"Gibney lays into the 'Me' generation for cashing out their
children's future and leaving the planet looking like a rock star's
hotel room.... Timely."--Esquire
"A Generation of Sociopaths is a polemic, but what a polemic:
filled with data, rich in anecdote, deadly serious yet wickedly
funny."--Alexandra Wolfe, author of Valley of the Gods
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