Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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e about America — there's more than one thing — but one thing I love about America is that we've never heard of a problem we can't make money on. You name it. If something's going wrong, there's one of us bastards who's figuring out how to make a buck on it. And I'm sure that that's what keeps the entire system working, is that the dumbest, most unproductive things in the world can be going on, an…

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lbert. Dilbert used to be in these paper things called newspapers, and they would be sent to people like physically to their homes and stuff, and then they would try to read them, and they would get their hands filled with all kind of weird ink and crap. And after you read it, you couldn't touch your food. Did you ever try to read a newspaper and eat toast at the same time? No, you can't do it, because your toast is going to taste like newspaper ink, right?

I might have a bad attitude about newspapers at the moment. I might have a little bias, a little bit. The funniest question I get from trolls online is that the trolls like to come into my tweets and say something about how sad I must be that I got canceled by newspapers. Who would want to be associated with newspapers? Can you raise your hand? Is there anybody here who has ever gone on a date and lied that you worked in the newspaper business to try to impress your date? It's like, I don't want her to hear that I'm a quality assurance person at a big corporation. I'm going to make up some kind of sexy job. Astronaut? No, no, she'd catch me. Newspaper reporter. Newspaper writer. Yeah, yeah. Because you'd like to feel good about yourself because you work for a newspaper.

Well, I was also watching some YouTube clips from Peter Zeihan. My God, that guy's interesting. Now, I do not know if Peter Zeihan has amazingly good insights about everything geopolitical or not. I mean,

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I really can't tell what's true and what's not. But I'll tell you, his content is interesting from beginning to end. So you know, use your adult filters to put yourself in the head of nobody knows the future. Can we agree that nobody knows the future? But he says interesting things. I'm going to share a few with you. And first of all, I need a fact check on this, because as Elon Musk says, the ne…

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