Episode 505 Scott Adams - TDS, Dopamine, Climate Crazies, Russian Interference, Bernie

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f your entire argument about climate change is CO2 is plant food, CO2 is plant food, you're not part of the conversation. You're saying something that other people, smart people, are looking at and saying, oh my god, oh my god. Nobody's arguing that CO2 isn't plant food. You're simply stating a fact of no importance to the argument. Somebody's saying warming is better. So right, some warming may…

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least they can volunteer for the job and try to get that job, you're always going to have massive sexual abuse. Because who in the world wants those jobs more than a pedophile? The pedophile is going to be the most motivated, the one who will take the lowest pay to do the job, the one who will suffer the worst conditions to do the job.

You should expect that over time — and I hope this isn't too much of an exaggeration — if you were to fast forward and nothing changed about the Boy Scouts, I'm not saying this is the case at the moment, but if you simply extend out the current forces and variables you should get to a point where a hundred percent of the Boy Scout leaders are pedophiles. Right? Because the pedophile will put up with more trouble, will go to greater lengths, will work for less money because they're getting paid off a different way unfortunately.

So if you wait long enough the entire Catholic Church should be pedophiles and the entire scouting organization should be. In the same way that I assume that most shoe sales people who work with women are probably guys with foot fetishes because they would work for less and they would try harder and they would put more effort into getting those jobs. Over time incentives ar

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e always predictive. Incentives are always predictive. You've created a situation with the scouts and with the Catholic Church that pretty much guarantees it attracts a certain type of person because they would have the greatest incentive. And nothing stops that. It's hard to find any example where incentives that are that strong and that clear don't drive behavior. I mean that you should expect…

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"The pedophile is going to be the most motivated, the one who will take the lowest pay to do the job, the one who will suffer the worst conditions to do the job. Because the pedophile will put up with more trouble, will go to greater lengths, will work for less money because they're getting paid off a different way unfortunately."

Pedophiles will always outcompete others for roles involving children since they have an extra non-financial reward, making them willing to accept worse pay and conditions than normal people.

"You should expect that over time if you simply extend out the current forces and variables you should get to a point where a hundred percent of the Boy Scout leaders are pedophiles. In the same way that I assume that most shoe sales people who work with women are probably guys with foot fetishes because they would work for less and they would try harder and they would put more effort into getting those jobs."

Unchecked incentives can lead entire professions or organizations—like scout leaders, priests, or women's shoe salesmen—to become dominated by people with matching fetishes, as they compete harder for less reward.