Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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how to turn off your ads and your ad blocker, which isn't too much of a bother. I would say I skip almost everything that's asking me for money or a password or my email address or to turn off ad blockers. And every time I go to one of those links I get angry. Now Twitter users are gonna have that experience. They could be like, hey that looks interesting, click. Oh I'd have to pay for that. I'm…

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business or product that you hear about, people would tell you why to use it, like what its extra advantage is. But I haven't heard that about Clubhouse and I don't know why. Does that mean there isn't any extra advantage? I don't know. I guess I'll keep that as an open question.

Here there's big news about the minimum wage $15 thing that the Democrats want to make a national law. And I guess there's a rules person who decides the parliamentary rules in the Senate has decided that they can't include that minimum wage thing with this big omnibus bill. There's some kind of rule that says you can't include things that are trivially related to the main purpose and this is too trivially related to the main purpose, I guess.

So number one, I don't agree with this parliamentary decision. It might be correct in terms of interpreting the rules, but why does Congress put a rule on itself? What's the point of that? Why would Congress limit its own flexibility? Yeah, somebody says it's a rule, it's a rule. But why? Why is it a rule? Why in the world can't the Congress say, you know, we all think this should be in this bill. Why can't we just put it in there? Would that bother you as a citizen if you were a citizen? Would it bother you that there was some weird rule that they collectively decided to just ignore because there wasn't any purpose for the rule? I can't see the purpose for it.

Now I get that you don't want to have big messed up group things and you want to maintain the ability to do a filibuster and you know it's complicated etc. But none of this stuff serves the public, I don't think. Somebody says in all capitals, you don't understand the Senate and House rules. I'm going to block you for telling me what I don't understand. Goodbye. In all caps. Probably could have gotten away with that if you hadn't used all caps. Don't criticize me in all caps if you want to come back. At the very least use upper and lower case. Then you've got a chance of surviving. But you're not going to survive with all caps and no reasons, just some kind of weird insult because I'm telling you I don't know the rules. So you don't need to yell at me that I don't know the rules when it's literally what I'm saying to you. I don't know the rules, okay? I'm swearing at a guy who can't hear me.

All right. So here's my take on the minimum wage. So forget about the rule part. This is, you know, you wish there could be something like an executive order from Mitch McConnell who could just say yeah there's a rule but we're just going to ignore it because it doesn't serve us.

So what is your opinion on the $15 minimum wage in the comments? Can I get a feel of the crowd? Yes? No? On the minimum wage going to 15. It doesn't look like it's going to be an option right away, but what do you think? I'm interested in my specific audience. So take a second for the answers to comment. I'll tell you my opinion.

It goes like this. And I base this on the fact I have a degree in economics. I have an MBA from a high-end college, you know, university, Berkeley. And here's my opinion about the $15 minimum wage. I don't know. I don't know. Every one of you who says yes or no, what are you basing that on? Because I'm telling you I've got a degree in this. I don't know. I don't know if it's good. How do you know? Where the hell do you get your opinion from? Seriously, where the hell did you get these opinions? Because I don't think economists agree, do they?

Wouldn't you like to see two economists, one on each side, just get on a show and give you 15 minutes? You don't need more but you don't need less. Just 15 minutes of two economists on either side saying here's why it's a good idea. And then the other one says this is why it's a bad idea. And then maybe then I could make a decision. But have you ever seen that? I haven't seen that.

I've seen complaints about people saying it should be different in dif

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ferent areas because not every area is the same. It might hurt some places. It might help some places. And that feels like a good argument. I don't know how accurate it is but it feels at least like it makes sense. So here's my advice to you. If you have a really strong feeling about this $15 minimum wage and you're not a small business owner yourself, in other words it's not going to directly af…

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