Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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l parent that could become a rift that lasts forever and becomes a problem. Now I'm not saying every family is the same. You know I think there's a world of difference between a stepkid that you get as a baby and the original parent was never in the picture. That's effectively just a biological parent for all practical purposes right? But I'm talking about like a stepkid comes in at age 12. Okay…

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nt. It was t-shirt weather. Beautiful day. So if you don't mind the high taxes and the crime and the drought and the forest fires that are blotting out the sun, if you don't mind that stuff it's a pretty good place to be. And if you can stay away from the tsunamis and the earthquakes but you know I know where all the faults are. I just stay away from the faults.

Did you know there's a depopulation time bomb facing the West? And one wonders is there a reason we're talking about a depopulation time bomb that we've known about for a long time now? Some of it may be it's just reaching that critical point where everybody notices. Might be because Elon Musk has brought it up. But the West is hitting this problem. China's going to get it first because that one baby problem or policy they had for over 35 years or something. So deaths are going to outstrip births and pretty soon we'll have all these old people that require all this care and we won't have enough young people to work and take care of them.

I think that maybe technology and civilization will adjust. I think we'll adjust. I think that a lot of those old people live in houses and they'll just say hey, and this is something already happening, they'll say hey young person come live rent free in my house and you do some of the work and we both win. So I think that the first thing that will happen is civilization will just imm

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ediately adjust because we're real good at that. We adjust. Probably the single thing that makes humans the dominant species over the planet, although fungi are doing pretty well but you know humans we're having a good run, is because we adjust so well. You know is it Bret Weinstein who says this? It's our ability to adjust that makes us special I think his new book says that. So I think we'll ad…

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