Episode 2941 CWSA 08/28/25 — Scott Adams Philosophy

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man who stopped the burglar while he was in his Batman pajamas? Now, what was that burglar doing in that man's Batman pajamas? I don't know. No, it wasn't the burglar. It was the man who stopped him who had the Batman pajamas. And the best part about it is that when asked about the Batman pajamas, he said it gave me the confidence I needed. Now, that is a great answer. I don't know if the man we…

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stop eating out. That's like number one. It's the first thing you stop doing. And shopping for entertainment. You definitely wouldn't do that.

So, I feel as though people are really going to have to try hard to reduce their food budget. And I think restaurants are going to have some tough years ahead. That's my guess. Even if the economy is good. It's just that food is ridiculous. The cost of food.

Well, the middle-aged, according to the economists, the middle-aged people are no longer the most unhappy. That honor has gone to the young. So, young people, according to new surveys, are the least happy. So, middle-aged people, you're winning.

I would guess that is 50 percent economic because they feel like they can't succeed if they're young. And about half of that is loneliness and inability to hook up with somebody. So, yeah, I can see it. There's definitely if you change people's economic situation and their access to sex, they are going to be the least happy group. So at least the middle-aged people could have some middle-aged sex and they might have a little bit of money compared to the young.

Well, RFK Jr. made a bunch of news and the first part is that they're going to add nutrition education to premed programs across the country. I don't know if they're making it mandatory or if they're just making it available, but you probably know that doctors will go through medical school without being trained in nutrition, which is just mind-blowing. Not trained in nutrition. What?

But will that work? In my lifetime, all the science about nutrition has been fake. Do we believe? Do you believe that after 300,000 years of civilization where people didn't know much about nutrition, do you believe that you were lucky enough to be born in the exact era that we figured out nutrition?

Well, it certainly didn't happen when I was young, but did it happen recently? I thought it happened when I was young. Do you think that we're going to find out that absolutely everything we be

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lieve about nutrition is wrong? Maybe, because we found that out every other time in all of human history. We've never been right about nutrition. But now we're right. We finally got the right answer. I don't know. So, I think it's probably a good idea to teach as much as we know, but I'll bet you a lot of our nutrition science is still crap. Well, apparently Bill Gates is going to discontinue f…

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"In my lifetime, all the science about nutrition has been fake. Do you believe that after 300,000 years of civilization where people didn't know much about nutrition, do you believe that you were lucky enough to be born in the exact era that we figured out nutrition?"

Nutrition science has been fake throughout my lifetime. After 300,000 years of humans knowing little about it, the odds are low that we have suddenly figured it out perfectly in our era.

"Young people are the least happy. I would guess that is 50 percent economic because they feel like they can't succeed if they're young. And about half of that is loneliness and inability to hook up with somebody. If you change people's economic situation and their access to sex, they are going to be the least happy group."

Young people’s low happiness is roughly half from feeling economically doomed and half from loneliness and lack of romantic partners. Shift those two variables and they become the unhappiest cohort.