Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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But if you only have one functioning person or no functioning people, I don't think your love language is going to fix that. "Yeah, well you're an abusive alcoholic, but maybe if I gave you gifts, maybe that would turn things around." No, no. Your abusive alcoholic gifts are not going to turn it around. Here's another "follow the money" for you. How many of you are alarmed, you should be, that in…

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t basically if it's based on how many people are dying flat. Right now if you're an insurance company, what would your economic interest suggest? Would it suggest that if you said, "I think in the future there and in the past recently there's a lot of excess deaths. Hey, all those excess deaths, what are we going to do with our rates? I've got an idea. Why don't we substantiall

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y raise our rates because of all the excess deaths, because we're going to have to pay these people when they die for the life insurance, right?" So how many of you fell for believing the people who have the greatest incentive to lie to you, the insurance companies, the greatest economic incentive to lie to you? How many of you said to yourself, "Well that's a good source"? How many of you fell f…

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