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dn't believe it list is Kevin Spacey's name. Now here's what you should look at. Look for if we should ever confirm that we know who flew with him. Look for people who are let's say famous celebrities who are unusually politically active. That's what I'd be looking for. All right, but we have to wait to make sure that it's a real list. So we don't know if Kevin Spacey was ever on anything like tha…

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But if the government is wondering why there are so many, maybe they should examine their own behavior. Maybe consider all possibilities.

Well, an interesting and provocative post by Naval Ravikant. And he has a way of saying things in a very succinct way. And he said this: Argentina may prove that you can vote your way out of poverty. Because, and they showed some stats of South American countries and their poverty levels, and it is very clear that it's a political problem and not a resource problem. You can see that when the political leadership changes, the economy just either goes in the toilet or does well. And it seems to be one to one.

So Argentina has their new president. He was doing a lot of stuff and cutting departments and stuff. I would bet on Argentina recovering. I would say the smart money says Argentina is going to go well. And here's the thing. Sometimes it's just about energy. So the new president of Argentina brings in this reformist energy which makes people say, oh I'm optimistic now because of all that reformist energy. Oh he did something in the news that looks like a big deal. He got rid of some departments or something. Oh, reformist energy. So then because there's reformist energy people create their own energy and that becomes a self-fulfilling issue.

So it will be partly what he does, the new president, but partly how people feel about it. And apparently people are feeling good about it. So good news from Argentina which may spread to other places.

Zero Hedge is reporting that what is becoming evident is that the NGOs, the non-government organizations, now these will be organizations that usually rich people have funded but are not directly controlled by anybody's government. So they're like little governments but non-government because there's some rich person allowing them to do what they do. Rich people usually. And apparently these NGOs are now well known to be the organizers of the mass immigration that's happening in America and probably elsewhere.

So it's organized. It's not just that they made it comfortable for people who were going to immigrate anyway. They actually created an entire travel network to inform people how to go and then help them immigrate from everywhere in the world. Now this had nothing to do with the American government but has a gigantic impact on the health of the United States. So it's not a country. They're non-government organizations. It might be people from different countries in some cases.

Now how should we respond to that? Well if it's just a non-government organization doing legal stuff, and I guess it's all legal. In fact you can find out, you can get their documents, you can find their maps, you can find out their whole plans. And they're doing exactly what I said. They've created a whole platform to make it easy for people to leave where they are and end up in America and survive.

Now my first problem with that is the following. One of the things I've always liked about American illegal immigration and even legal immigration is that it was hard to get to America. It was hard to get in legally. You had to be qualified and know how to jump through all the hoops. You had to be able to afford a plane ticket depending where you're coming from. So the people we would get are people who crossed a very high bar. They could figure out how to get here. They could go through all the complications to do it. And they were high enough educated quality that the country said, oh yeah, we like people like you.

But what happens, and then also for the people coming over the southern border, they were unusually risk-taking people because they didn't necessarily know how they were going to make it work. I like those people. But here's the problem. What happens if it's so easy it's just easier to leave than it is to stay? Now you've reversed it. If it's easier to stay than it is to leave you've got a natural filter. So you get all the risk-taking high quality people who can do this difficult thing of getting here. Now you make it so easy and where you are is so bad that the laziest lowest qualified people say, hey I might as well get on this bus. It's free. Might take me somewhere better.

So didn't we just reverse the best thing about immigration? That it got us the people who could pass the filter. And now the filter is reversed and we're getting the people who couldn't make it in their own country and probably can't make it as easily in our country as the people who had a harder time getting past the filter. So that's bad.

But I'd like to add this following thought. Is there a reason we can't kill the NGO leaders under the rules of war? Wouldn't we just have to declare this an illegal invasion and part of a war and then we could kill them? Couldn't we? Now I don't think we should just go murder the people in the NGOs. That would be kind of crazy. I'm not saying that. I'm saying we should create a legal process in which we designate the NGOs as terrorist organizations because they seem to be working diligently for the destruction of the United States. What would you call that?

Well you'd say

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, well they're not doing anything violent. And I would say they're shipping in military aged people that we don't know. How does that not end up with more violence than there would have been if they hadn't done it? Of course there is. So I would say we should at least examine designating the NGOs as terrorist organizations or paramilitary or military supporting or funding of terrorists or somethin…

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