Back to episode — Episode 769 Scott Adams - All the Good Things to Expect in 2020, and the Simultaneous Sip
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. But I am one stubborn mofo. If there's one thing you could take away from me, you know one thing that you in my own, this is my own opinion of myself, the one thing that defines me is I don't like to lose and I don't like to be told I can't do something. And it's motivating as all hell. And even when it's like really, really bad stuff like the voice problem was, I just get more motivated. So th…
← Previous segment →the politicians behind closed doors, not the lobbyists. The public. That's the important part. Regular people, just experts, citizens, people who care. And try to get them over the next year to come up with their three best plans. It could be two Democrat plans, one Republican. It doesn't matter. But just the very best.
And then commit in advance the Congress and the president to, let's say you don't want to overcommit because you could get three bad plans, but that they would commit to trying to get the top one, whatever is the top most popular one, legislated. So once the public decides then we hand it over to the government and say check it for two things. One to make sure it's you know all legal. You know you've just done the legal work to make sure that you've got something you can execute and it's practical and all that. But also to make sure that the majority did not steamroll the minority. Right, that's one of the main purposes of government is to make sure that just because something got the most votes it's not some discriminatory horrible thing.
So you need a parental check if you will on whatever the public does. But I'd love to see the government commit to letting the public work it out and then the government being a supporting role instead of the leading role. Because they can't be the leading role. That just won't work.
Alright, so the first thing I'd like to see in 2020 is a revised decision-making process. It might not look exactly like I described it but look in 2020 for something that's a smarter way to decide and let the public get involved. That's the health care goal.
In a perfect world we'd see somebody suggesting various tests where they could test different things. Let's talk about the homeless situation. As you know the probably the most productive voice on the homeless situation right now is Dr. Drew. And one of the big questions it really focuses on this question I think. The question of involuntarily taking people off the streets if they need drug or mental health, some kind of counseling or support.
Now the problem is that people are free. Well, and if they say I do not want to go into your support program they don't have to. And then they die on the streets and they make things worse for other people as well. So the big decision that needs to be made is how, if at all, can authorities be helpful in sort of forcing people to do what's good for those people so that conversation is going to get really loud in 2020. So I'm gonna help push that one.
And you won't know, here's what we mostly need to fix the homeless problem. You ready? I'm going to tell you something you've never heard. So as long as you've been hearing about the homeless problem and now you're a little bit smarter because you know it's not about homes. It's not even about the cost of the homes for the homeless. It's about their drug problems and their addictions. I'm sorry, their addictions and their mental problems primarily.
So here's another thing that you've never heard. The reason
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we can't solve it is that we don't have project managers. That's the thing that's missing. Here's what I mean. Do we have enough billionaires and/or government funding to test some different solutions for the so-called homeless problem that really is a people problem? And the answer is we do. We do have. We have billionaires who are literally saying I've got billions of dollars. If you can give me…
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