Back to episode — Episode 1360 Scott Adams - Biden Speech, Senator Tim Scott's Rebuttal Through the Persuasion Filter
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uff, as important as the topic is, had an unintended consequence that men don't like to hang out with women or even hire attractive women if they have an option. Because if you hire an attractive woman in the era of Me Too, even if you know you'll be fine, your co-worker might do something wrong. So you're just introducing a danger into the workplace. That's a pretty big one. Now, will that cause…
← Previous segment →the autocrats of the world that democracy still works. So that's sort of a big theme of his presidency, is showing that democracies are better than, say, Chinese communist leadership or Russian or any autocracy. But is it true? Do you think democracies are more effective in helping the country than autocracies? Because I'm not sure that's true. I prefer freedom, right? If I have a choice, I'm going to take a democracy. But why is the United States doing better than, let's say, China in innovation? Is it because of the form of government? I don't think so. It feels like a cultural difference. That if you're in a country that doesn't mind you failing as much as you want before you succeed, you probably get more risk-taking than a country that says oh, you shamed your family and failed. That company you started didn't work, blah blah.
Could be because America has fewer nepotism problems, less corruption, fewer people in the top with puppet strings. Could be a lot of things. But I don't think it has anything to do with democracy versus
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autocracy, does it? And even the autocrats have capitalism. They have some form of capitalism, right? So it's an interesting theme to prove that democracy still works because I don't know that it does. I don't know that we really can compete with a qualified autocrat. We could certainly compete with bad autocrats, like just dictators that are destroying their own country. But China's got a really…
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