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Back to episode — Episode 1463 Scott Adams - Viruses, Climate, and Other Scary Persuasion

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, a good drawing of a robot there in the comments. Thank you. Well, well, well. Let me start with the funniest tweet of the day from Glenn Greenwald. You all know about Obama having a big birthday party, his 60th birthday party, and he invited a lot of what the New York Times call sophisticated vaccinated people. So unlike your Sturgis, where there's a bunch of unsophisticated people, Obama's bir…

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an to not get the virus and our hospitals are not overrun yet, I mean there's some places that they got real problems apparently in the south, but I don't know. You know if you see lots of whatever you see pictures of and talk about will seem like your biggest problem. What are the odds?

Yeah, so here's an experiment for you. Think about your own life right now. Just think about yourself personally, okay? Think about yourself, just your life, the things that will affect you personally. What are the odds that you personally as a resident of the United States, if you are one, what are the odds that you will be affected in a negative way by immigration? It can happen, right? But right now you could probably get a job just about anywhere because there's more job openings than jobs. So it doesn't affect your employment at the moment. It does affect that you can get services and goods from people willing to provide them that are maybe here illegally. But what are the odds that you will have a worse life like personally? It's not really that high. No, I see crime, right? But what are the odds of you personally will be a victim of a crime from an illegal immigrant just personally?

Now I'm not saying that you should, I'm in favor of a tight border just to be clear. I'm in favor of tight borders for all the obvious reasons. But the odds that you personally will be victimized by an immigrant in some direct way, I'm seeing people say a hundred percent. I guess depending on where you live that could be true. If you lived on the border there's 100 percent chance you would be affected in some way, probably negatively. But if you're not living right on the border it probably won't affect you at all. Probably won't. Maybe a little inflation, I don't know. Maybe your health care goes up or down, I don't know. But the truth is you probably did not even notice.

So very much like climate change. Climate change might be the biggest problem in the world. It might be. But it probably won't affect you. You probably won't know the difference. You could probably go through your life just doing what you do and live your whole life and scientists and engineers and the government will take care of the climate change and you'll just buy products that are more energy efficient and that's all you'll do. Who speaks for the Earth? Well yeah, the Earth has some issues.

So my biggest problem is taxes. Debt is a problem but we don't know how much. So I think that we'll figure our way through this. Have you noticed that under the Biden administration are you worse off? Probably you could do some statistical stuff to find out that you are. Gas is more expensive, yeah gas is more expensive. But how about your specific life? Do you think it's worse off than if you've been under Trump? Well I don't know. I mean you can make a good argument for it and the partisans will say yeah Trump would be better. Might be right. But it's probably not that much, right? Because every day I wake up, I do this, you know I eat, I sleep, I exercise. It feels a lot the same. I don't know. I can't think of anything that's different besides the fact that I'm bored. I mean I'm bored by Biden. He just bores the crap out of me. But besides that I don't know. My life looks pretty much the same. The pandemic probably would have been the same under Trump. Oh ammunition prices, yeah I guess that's going up.

But Scott you do not reflect the population. You are correct. You are correct. But it is true the people who want jobs can get them and that your odds of dying from some new crisis whether it's a coronavirus or climate change is very small for any one person. Very, very small. And yeah inflation's definitely a problem. Definitely a problem. All right. Yeah, inflation is probably the biggest problem that has a direct effect on people. I'll give you that. Inflation is the biggest problem and I do think that Trump would have been maybe better on that but we still had to spend our way out of the pandemic so I think there was going to be inflation no matter what.

All right. Can't get a job if I won't take the vaccine. Yeah well that's your free market working for you there. Oh you're now deemed a racist. So yes, yeah I guess that's worse if you've been deemed a racist but you would have been anyway. Why is oil not going up? Maybe it already did.

All right. So I'm seeing a lot of comments here about sunspots. If, let me tell you. Oh god I just, the Locals platform just crashed. Somebody said it's doing it every 28 minutes. Oh yeah it's right, it did it exactly in 28 minutes. That is correct. Interesting. So it's a 28 minute timer it looks like on the Locals platform but it comes right back on. All right, so it does look like there's a 28 minute timer on the Locals platform and it times out anyway.

Sunspots. If you think those sunspots are the thing controlling climate change you're probably not operating at a high level of understanding or knowledge. That's the sort of problem you have if you do your own research. You know I always make fun of people doing their own research because we're not qualified. You know I've got two college degrees and spent a lot of time doing a lot of data analytics and stuff. I'm not qualified. You're not either to do your own research. But I'll tell you one thing that is the least likely thing to be true. The least likely thing to be true is that sunspots are the hidden cause of climate change. That is the least likely thing of anyth

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ing about climate change. It's the least likely to be true. I suppose anything could be true. You know you could be wrong or I could be wrong about anything. And the reason is because it's so obvious as a thing to check. It has been checked extensively and the people who are the consensus of experts say there's absolutely nothing there. But you can find all over the internet less credible people…

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