Back to episode — Episode 1822 Scott Adams - Most Of The News Today Is Fake And Kind Of Funny
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point. I'm not. I'm in this point. If you let a hundred thousand addicts live every year, are you better off? Now I obviously would like my stepson to still be alive but are you better off? I hate to say it but you're not better off. I might have been better off because I love him, right? So I loved him so I might be better off because I would prefer it. But would you be better off with my stepson…
← Previous segment →what they're doing is they're trying to be woke by telling you that vaccinations work. It's really just wokeness. So they're not using data to make decisions. They're not trying to make money. They're trying to be woke because that's more important than profits. Do you know who says that sort of thing? Do you know who says that an insurance company favors wokeness over profits? What kind of person says that? Yeah, what characterizes somebody who would say that they might prefer wokeness over profits? You're saying idiots but that's unkind. I'm gonna give the kindest interpretation. It's people with no experience in business whatsoever. All right? You don't have to say NPC, you're stupid. Just say this: people with no experience in business whatsoever. I don't believe there are any experienced business people who would say that an insurance company is going to put itself out of business to serve wokeness. I don't think so.
Now people said to me but Scott, Disney did exactly that. They made a bad decision for wokeness and hurt their profitability. So what about that? To which I say that's not what I'm talking about. That's a completely different situation. Yes, companies will make public PR statements that are for wokeness but that doesn't mean they're intentionally destroying the engine of their economic survival. If an insurance company starts pricing things incorrectly they go out of business. They have to price correctly based on their data or they can't stay in business. That is completely different. Staying in business versus saying some things in public you think will
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sound good but you hope it won't hurt you too much. Disney made a gigantic mistake but they didn't do it intentionally. They did not intentionally destroy their business or degrade it by doing something like that. I don't think they quite saw the DeSantis pushback coming. So to imagine that it's similar, that somebody accidentally hurts their business by saying things they think wouldn't hurt but…
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