Back to episode — Episode 744 Scott Adams - Troll Attacks, Loserthink in the News, Bottom Circle People, Lisa Page
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t if I were, I'd be looking here. So look for that. I wonder if they're A/B testing it. But it looks like the new approach is to go after Trump supporters and say, do you like Stephen Miller? Do you like kids in cages? And try to make all Trump supporters feel like they're garbage people. In fact, that's the most common thing I see is that I'm a garbage person because I write and talk about Trump…
← Previous segment →art. The relevant part is that they're all starting with hate and then they're reasoning backwards from that. It's like, well, I hate this group of people, so what's that mean about my political opinions? So that's how I see the world. And the trolls identify the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists all in the same category. I don't make any distinction, and I think that's helpful.
All right, let's talk about a few other things. Canada is going more nuclear. So a group of premiers — three premiers from three different regions in Canada — got together and decided that they would start supporting the design and building of small modular nuclear power stuff. Now, it's going to take five to ten years before any of these actually get built, but it's important that there were three of them and it's important that they came up with a long-range plan.
Now, on Twitter a gentleman said that — Zach Kanter, so he's a user on Twitter, Zach Kanter — and he saw that article. He said, "What a huge drawback of nuclear power is that it doesn't dismantle systems of oppression. It only produces clean energy. This makes it unsuitable for solving the climate crisis, which isn't just about the environment." And then he showed a picture which is saying that one benefit of climate change policy would be to dismantle the entire patriarchy system, basically the entire system of government.
So I said to myself, huh, what kind of background would you have to have to have such a bad opinion? And what kind of training or experience would you have to have to hold this point of view? Because one thing I could tell you for sure, it's not economics and it's not politics, probably not history. So I said to myself, what kind of background is that? So I looked at his LinkedIn profile. He has a BA in science and marketing. Pretty good. And he's involved in some startups. So he is technical and he also has some marketing. Pretty good. Smart guy. So I'm going to say if he were to take an IQ test, he'd probably do really well because he's got an advanced degree. But what would science and marketing tell you about changing the economic and political system in this country? Not much, right?
So he's got this giant blank spot. If you study economics, you're certainly not — well, if you're honest about it, you're not trying to turn the country into a completely different socialist experiment. But here's the thing that most smart economists would know: If your country is doing better than it has ever done in the history of humankind, your economy is the strongest it's ever been, and on pretty much every metric we're improving, under those conditions, do you make a large risky change to your system? Is that the right time to make a large risky change to your entire system? You're dismantling it, rebuilding it, when things are going better than they've ever gone before? No.
Is that a hundred percent of economists would tell you the same thing? You know, unless they're also in politics, in w
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hich case that can change things. But I don't think there's anybody who has business experience or economics experience who would tell you that a good time to change everything like a big risky major change from the ground up into your society and your economics and everything is when everything is better than it's ever been. That's exactly the time you don't do that. So this is a perfect example…
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