Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ns. I don't think he really hopes that Trump gets indicted and arrested and I don't think we want to drop the facade of democracy. But it does look like that might happen and I don't know that it's bad. So I'm going to agree with Tim on the optimism that if Trump gets arrested it might be bad for Trump, he might have a bad day, but I do think it will galvanize the country and make it clear that we…

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too dynamic, too strong to be a vice president.

Would you ever consider getting married again? Asking for a girlfriend. Well I don't think marriage works. That's my experience. Now I could go into a long explanation but I think in 2023 it just sort of doesn't work. Now I still think it's the best model for raising kids but it doesn't work for the couple so much. It's too much pressure on life. So now I don't think that marriage is the right model for somebody like me who's not looking to have kids. If I were looking to have kids then yes, for kids absolutely. But otherwise the feeling I get of waking up — well I explained this in the man cave but I'll say it for the YouTube people. Being single I can match what I want to do with my schedule and my desires match up perfectly. Meaning that when I'm hungry I eat. When I have interest and energy to work I work. The reason I'm doing this at this time of day is this is the time of day I want to do it. That's it. This is the time of day I want to do it. So doing things that you want to do at the time you want to do them is so directly related to happiness compared to yes I can do all the things I like but I can only do them at the wrong times. I can only take a vacation when my spouse can take a vacation. Maybe that's my heavy work time. I can only do this because of the kids. I can only do this because of that. So you basically, if you're the man especially in a marriage, you end up in more of a prisoner situation.

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married day — and by the way this was less true with Christina — but an average married husband day is you work all day and then you come home and your wife who sort of knows the schedule of the kids and stuff like that, who might have also worked but she tends to know the most about who needs to do what, and so then your wife says all right you drive the kids here and I'll do this and you do this…

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