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iden got rid of it. Here's my take. ESG is so obviously destructive — like really super obviously. It's not really a question of opinion. I d

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on't believe there's any serious business person, unless they're profiting by selling ESG, but there's nobody who's not directly profiting from ESG who would tell you it's a good idea. Nobody. You're not going to get Warren Buffett to say it's a good idea, are you? Now he might say I like diversity. He might say we should do things about climate change. But if you tell him, "Warren, I like the companies that you own and have invested in. I'd like them to take their eye off of profitability and focus more on these things that they're really going to get measured on, which is the environment. You know, what have you done for climate change and what have you done for diversity?" Do you think Warren Buffett would say, "Yeah, that's the focus I want the companies I've invested in"?

And remember, Warren Buffett is a Democrat as far as I know. I think he's a Democrat. He might be independent, but he leans that way. No, you wouldn't get anybody in business to say it's a good idea.

Now why is it that the president just vetoed something that is so obviously a bad idea? It is a bad idea to veto it. Why? Well, I can't even imagine the ESG is coming from inside the country now. Here's the problem with perception. If you were to say who is more likely behind pushing ESG, somebody who's within the United States who cares about America or somebody outside the country who wants to destroy America? Clearly ESG would destroy America because there's nobody who would make the argument that you should give up merit for equity or merit for diversity. Nobody would make that argument. So you know it's not coming from anybody smart or it's not coming from somewhere within America. Because even though America likes diversity and likes doing stuff for climate change, they wouldn't make that a requirement of a company and then have them take their eye off of profitability, because it's obvious that will destroy civilization. It would destroy civilization. The entire civilization is built on incentives. There's no country that's thrived without incentives. As soon as you try to say all right everybody's paid the same no matter how hard you work, that's the end of your country. It hasn't worked anywhere ever in the history of the world.

So I can't imagine that any smart American who cared about America would be promoting ESG. It does make sense that grifters are doing it because that's what grifters do. It does make sense that people have to say they support it in public because they'll sound like bad people if they don't. So it does make sense that people say things in public that are opposite of what they believe. And it does make sense that the people get paid for it or push it and then everybody else sort of has to go along because you look like a bad person if you don't.

But I feel like the connection between the Biden crime family and Chinese payments — remember that Chinese payment to the Bidens? There was actually called, by the lawyer for Hunter Biden I think, called it a goodwill seed payment, which is a direct way to say it's not related to anything that's been offered. We're private. So under those conditions, do you think that Joe Biden can make decisions that are good for America, or does he kind of have to do things that sometimes are good for China because China knows too much about his activities? I feel like you can't trust Joe Biden to be independent from China because they know what they did or did not bribe him, and they know that they could just tell. I mean China has the goods on the family for sure. For sure they do.

Now I'm not saying that's why Biden did it. It might just be a Democrat thing. He just needs to serve his party, which would be plenty good enough reason politically. But the fact that it doesn't even look like something that was generated internally, the ESG, it looks like an enemy operation. It looks exactly like enemies have tried to insert it into our system to destroy it. ESG is literally a virus to capitalism. Let's say it that way. ESG is like a virus to capitalism. Capitalism can't survive it because

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as soon as you take the core of capitalism out, which is merit — you know, you only get what you work for, what you're providing — as soon as that's not your focus, it's the end of capitalism. There's no way around that, by the way. There's no way around it. Yeah, it's more like a virus than a cancer. Similar, but I like virus because it's more virulent, as they like to say. So the fact that the…

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