The Outrage Economy: When Human Crises are Monetized, Leadership Has Failed

The reason certain conversations feel explosive today is not because they are new It is because they were ignored until they became profitable Artificial intelligence Masculinity Trust in leadership Creativity under automation The erosion of purpose These are not latebreaking cultural shocks They are longbuilding fault lines What has changed is not the problem What has changed is the incentive to talk about itThat is precisely why these topics surfaced so directly on Brands Beats ampamp Bytes hosted by Larry Taman and Darryl amp8216DCamp8217 CobbinThis post is public so feel free to share itThis episode is not chasing controversy It is confronting it And it does so because I was early to these conversations long before they became content categories and because the intention has always been to explore solutions rather than monetize breakdownTake masculinity Long before it became a trending topic the warning signs were visible Boys disengaging from education Young men withdrawing socially Identity collapsing into anger or silence These were solvable problems when they were still inconvenient Itamp8217s why I wrote The Future of Men in 2016 Now they are profitable That timing matters Timing reveals intentionWhat troubles me is not that figures like Scott Galloway are talking about masculinity It is how and when they are doing it When a conversation begins after collapse when pain is already weaponized and anger converts efficiently the goal is no longer repair It is extraction Masculinity becomes a distressed demographic not a human responsibilityThe same pattern shows up in AI We are told to move fast scale faster and worry about consequences later Ethics are acknowledged then sidelined Bias is named then normalized What is missing is leadership willing to slow down long enough to ask what kind of future we are actually buildingLeadership itself has become performative Trust is celebrated rhetorically while systems quietly erode it Creativity is praised while reduced to prompts and productivity metrics Empathy is branded not practicedThese are the real issues underneath the headlines And they are why this episode of Brands Beats ampamp Bytes mattersThis podcast does not exist to amplify outrage It exists to interrogate it To ask why certain conversations only gain traction when they can be monetized To distinguish between commentary and leadership And to challenge marketers media leaders and technologists to move upstream where solutions still matter and incentives are not yet corruptedIf you want easy answers this is not your episodeIf you want a conversation about responsibility intention and what leadership actually demands in this moment this is exactly where it should happenAvailable now on all podcast platforms

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