Back to episode — Episode 2179 Scott Adams - Is The American Incompetence Crisis Caused By Women Dominating Policy?
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ow if that's a net bad or good because those smartest people are creating Google and Apple and stuff like that. So it might come out positive but it's at least one of those things I look at that might be sucking talent out of places we need it. All right, so you put this all together and there might be something that's making us smarter but I can't think of it. The best I could come up with is th…
← Previous segment →the average of a group. It's more about an average sort of situation. And yet you say everyone is the same Dale. Can you look at the calendar for me? Certainly. What's today? July 24th. What season is that? Summer. So are you pretending to be angry about something that you know isn't true because it's the summer and it's just summer news baby? Dale go back to where you came from. Gladly. And pause.
All right so here's what I mean. Here's what I don't mean. I don't mean there's anything wrong with women. Can I put that out there? There's nothing wrong with women. Women are great. And there's nothing wrong with individual women. Individual women I'm a big fan. I can show you plenty of individual women who are just killing it in the workplace, killing it in life, killing it with their families. Awesome people. I like women.
However it is generally true — if we can stay under the trans conversation for a moment if you will. Can I have permission to talk about something that's not related to trans? Anybody? Is that okay? I don't know if — is it legal? It's still legal right? I can talk about a topic without even referencing — is it like trans is not central to the topic? Okay well I had to check.
All right so here's what I say about difference between men and women. Men have more testosterone. Thank you. That's not true. What about the trans? Shut up Dale. Shut up. We're not doing trans today. Men have more testosterone. If you take a bunch of people with more testosterone, be they trans or be they not, are they more likely to develop systems that focus on competition compared to a control group of people with less testosterone? What do you think?
Do you think that the testosterone group if they were creating a system would make them competitive such as the free market, such as democracy and voting? Of course I think they would. And would that mean that those people who had more testosterone are they the smart ones? No I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if you pump anybody with testosterone they make different decisions than if they have less testosterone. It has nothing to do with your brain. It's literally a chemical that you had nothing to do with it. Well maybe you boosted it somehow but it's just a chemical.
All right now the second question. If you had a group that you were studying that you knew were lower testosterone, what would be the nature — and let's say that they had female chemistry — what is the nature of systems that they're likely to build? Would they be competitive systems, you know dog eat dog winner takes all? Or are they more likely to be a sharing communal kind of a situation where no one is left behind?
Well I mean you know the answer right? Don't you? Yeah. And is there anything wrong with a cooperative system that leaves nobody behind? It sounds great. It's exactly how you want your family to work, right? Yeah you want your family to work that way. That is a family frame. You're not going to let the weakest child die, right? You take care of your whole family.
But if you take these two groups who are individually and as a group awesome — so let's say that women are awesome individually and as a group and let's just be charitable here and say that men are awesome individually and as a group. Nobody's better. Nobody's worse. But one group has more testosterone and that predicts, I believe it predicts a set of actions in general. Again not every person but in general.
And I believe that everything we're seeing of this growing incompetence in America — and I'll just read you the list again. All right as I read you the list ask yourself this. If only men had been involved would they have designed these systems?
So you got the teachers unions run by a woman, very dominated by women. You've got affirmative action which I'm sure has more women promoting it than men at least really caring because women would be more benefiting. The job market that takes care of itself. How about the media science and experts lying? I don't think that has to do with women. I would say that I wouldn't blame that on anyone.
How about useless college classes? The only reason that useless college classes exist is that people sign up for them and they pay for them. Who is signing up for the useless college classes? The non-STEM women. Okay. And again that's an average. It's not meant to represent any one woman.
The people retiring that's just happening on its own. And startups sucking talent also yeah. So some of these are just an effect of where we are in the economy but others are clearly because women dominate policy. Do you think that's a true statement that women dominate policy? I think it's guaranteed by the nature of men and women that women would eventually dominate.
And the reason is that a lot of these questions are kind of close. You know the reason that there's any conversation at all is that reasonable people can disagree on what to do. But you know what reasonable people have a hard time doing? Pissing off women. Pissing off women.
If you put me in a situation where I'm just analyzing the risks and rewards and which one's better and there's no outside force I probably get the right answer more than not. You know oh this one's better than this one. But if you put on top of it can you analyze these two forces but let me tell you in advance that if you decide that one of these is better than the others and it's the wrong one you're going to be canceled because women exist. Right? Which one am I going to choose? I'm going to choose the one that doesn't get me canceled, doesn't give me a fight when I go home.
Women are very influential without having let's say power on paper. PJ says God is terrified of powerful women. Yeah that's what I'm saying. I'm terrified of powerful women. Laughs.
I'm going to use PJ as an example of the declining competence in the United States. That was not a let's say A-plus comment. I'm not sure it was a B-minus. That was sort of a D-plus barely represented human communication. Do better. Do better.
Stefan says in all capital letters I would bet my left nut this guy is single. Big surprise because I don't have to go home to a wife and explain what I did on a live stream today. That's why I'm telling you the truth because I don't have to go explain it to a woman when I'm done.
Do you think I would have done this live stream when I was married? Oh you poor bastards who can't say what you want to say. I'm I just want to make you jealous for a moment. I don't like to brag but I'm canceled and single. Yeah same time. I'm canceled and I'm single. I can say anything I want and I'm rich. I can say anything I want to anyone. Well unless somebody might beat me up.
So I think you should sit there in the silent jealousy that I have that thing you crave: the ability to say what I want. Yes I think that the political power of women is destroying the country and I'm not sure I would even change it because who wants to take political power away from citizens of the United States? I don't have a solution. If you're telling me but Scott are you saying going back to the old ways where women were property of the men? No I don't have a good idea. I literally don't have a better idea. I'm just describing the current situation.
If you're trying to understand why we are where we are maybe you understand it better. I'd love to see somebody come up with a solution. I would say that one solution is Vivek. Vivek Ramaswamy is saying directly, strongly, clearly and with a good argument I'm going to get rid of affirmative action because it's counterproductive for everybody. And so that's the solution. So I guess I would promote that and I am backing him.
So it's important to understand it. You don't have to get mad at each other for that.
All right, I saw a tweet by Kenna Anna who said in her tweet it still shocks me that the educated class is the easiest manipulated class. Do you know who knew that? That the most educated ar
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e the easiest to manipulate? Well hypnotists and magicians have known it forever. So have fraudulent psychics. I remember the amazing Randi, amazing Randi a magician who used to debunk frauds and he was famous for saying that it was easier to fool a scientist than an average person because the average person is not confident in what they know so they'll look at something and say I don't know that…
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