Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2061 Scott Adams： Trans Shooter, TikTok Ban Bill Is Fake, Dem Goals vs. GOP Systems

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00:00:51.600 Oh, that's good. Yeah, some good stuff there.

00:00:55.400 All right, well, let's look at all the news. I heard that Elon Musk says that Twitter might

00:01:05.560 be on a fast lane to bankruptcy. But that doesn't mean Twitter would go away. I always have to

00:01:13.460 remind people when they hear anything about bankruptcy. Bankruptcy means the courts give

00:01:18.900 you some, let's say, relief with creditors, meaning that you don't have to pay them right

00:01:25.040 away necessarily so that you can stay in business. So I wouldn't be surprised, but it wouldn't

00:01:30.800 affect whether Twitter stays in business.

00:01:33.260 So I guess the blue check people will lose their blue checks on Twitter unless they buy 0.95

00:01:43.040 it. And already somebody who bought a blue check is impersonating Monica Lewinsky. So 0.99

00:01:51.220 apparently the blue check will no longer work as a way to know if somebody is the real thing.

00:01:56.560 So in theory, there should be a whole bunch of impersonators of me in a week. There'll be a whole

00:02:04.520 bunch of racist looking impersonators of me. Can't wait. Can't wait for that. Probably already 0.96

00:02:10.700 making their accounts. So I don't know if this is the right answer. I do think that everybody who has

00:02:16.520 a blue check probably needs to be paying for it. I mean, that's not crazy. And I think that Twitter

00:02:23.580 Twitter is better as a subscription service. Because if you're not willing to pay a few

00:02:28.520 bucks a month, maybe you're not thinking it's adding value to you or you're adding value to

00:02:34.920 it. So I think Musk is on the right track. And I think that losing his advertising revenue,

00:02:43.540 which apparently he did, 70% of it or something, maybe that was good. Because I'm not sure I would

00:02:49.680 trust or want to be in a system that, you know, no friction of getting on there or getting off.

00:02:56.680 All right, here's a disturbing story. Matt Taibbi, journalist who was testified in Congress about

00:03:05.960 the Twitter files and all that. Apparently the IRS visited his house the same day he was testifying

00:03:14.780 in Congress. It was a surprise visit. There was no announcement. The IRS agents just showed

00:03:22.320 up at his door. Now, I can't, in a million years, you would never convince me that was anything

00:03:31.240 but a political intimidation. It was political intimidation, right? I guess Jim Jordan,

00:03:37.860 Representative Jordan has asked the IRS to explain themselves. And Matt Taibbi has wisely said

00:03:45.540 he's not going to comment until the Jim Jordan letter gets a response. So he doesn't appear

00:03:52.340 to owe any money. In fact, he thinks the government owes him money, a lot of money. So it looks like

00:03:59.600 it was just political. Oh, my God. I mean, I don't know what could be scarier than that. It

00:04:06.500 couldn't possibly be a coincidence, is it? It doesn't feel like it. But that's just jaw-dropping.

00:04:14.180 So there's your problem. The government is being weaponized against the public. It looks

00:04:18.700 like it. Now, remember, we're in the fog of war on this story. So the odds of this story

00:04:23.720 turning into something different in the next days or years are pretty good. So I wouldn't

00:04:29.740 bet you know what's happening yet. So far, we probably don't know what's happening. But it's

00:04:36.140 scary. Well, of course, there was another mass shooting at a school. And I usually don't

00:04:41.880 talk about these because I don't like to give them attention. But the interesting thing about

00:04:47.040 this, if I could call it interesting, given that it's more tragedy than news, is that the

00:04:55.700 shooter was trans. Now, if ever there was a story that was made for the headlines, it's mass

00:05:07.020 shooting, children victims, as well as adults, and a trans activist. This has, I don't know 0.98

00:05:16.440 if it was an activist. This has everything. But you have to look at the way the various news

00:05:22.400 sites are covering it. When I heard the story, I heard it was a female trans. And so I didn't 0.92

00:05:30.140 know what I was dealing with. Because I don't know, what does that mean? Does that mean you

00:05:34.960 were born female and transitioned to male? Or does it mean you were born male and transitioned

00:05:40.520 to female? So when I hear female trans, I'm like, that's not even a term. I don't even know

00:05:46.500 what that means. So here's what I think I know. When I look at Fox News coverage, they refer

00:05:57.540 to the shooter as she. She. But the shooter has he and him pronouns. So is Fox News in trouble

00:06:08.720 for referring to somebody with he and him pronouns, who transitioned, I guess, as a she. I don't

00:06:18.800 know. What are the rules? So I went over to CNN to see how they were handling it. Do you

00:06:23.240 know how CNN handled it? Never mentioned gender. No pronouns. The shooter did this. Then the shooter

00:06:31.880 did that. And then the shooter did this. Yep. I think they said at some point the shooter

00:06:39.160 is trans. But they just like stayed out of the whole thing. The shooter. Yeah. Now, do you think

00:06:48.080 that the trans element of the story is why the shooting happened? We don't know. We'd just be 0.79

00:06:55.240 guessing. I'm guessing no, actually. Some of you guess yes. I mean, we're just guessing

00:07:02.120 because we don't know. I'm guessing no, but I could easily be talked into yes. So it was

00:07:10.260 a student. Yeah. So how many of you think this is a story of mental illness as opposed to a

00:07:18.020 story about guns? To me, it looks like mental illness. I mean, I think you have to be mentally

00:07:24.360 ill to go shoot up a school. So kind of by definition. All right. So I don't want to 0.99

00:07:32.060 talk about that too much, except that, oh my God, it was just made for TV news. We're

00:07:39.380 going to hear a lot about this. Well, I saw yet another Democrat, Rachel Maddow, saying

00:07:47.360 some version of no one is above the law. Talk about Trump. Now, what is that when somebody

00:07:55.660 says no one is above the law? What is that? What would you call that? It does sound like

00:08:06.680 what an NPC says, but it's actually persuasion. It's making you think past the sale. Did you

00:08:13.360 know that? If you're talking about whether somebody is above the law, you've already decided

00:08:19.420 that they're guilty. That's what that means. I've decided they're guilty. So if they're

00:08:25.720 not already in jail, well, maybe you're acting like they're above the law or something. So

00:08:31.220 never fall for the above the law thing. That's just somebody trying to say they're guilty without

00:08:36.680 using the words that are guilty. And it never is on point. It's never on point. When you're

00:08:44.320 talking about Trump's legal situations, does anybody say he's above the law? Does anybody

00:08:51.960 say that the law should not be prosecuted? Nobody says that. But the Democrats act like

00:08:59.060 there's some argument with imaginary people who think that some people should not be prosecuted.

00:09:04.520 Now, here's what else is wrong with that. Nobody's above the law, but also nobody is below the

00:09:15.100 law. If there are trumped up charges, no pun intended, should you be sent to jail because

00:09:23.880 you're not above the law? If the charges are BS? I mean, that's what people are acting like.

00:09:31.200 It's like, even if the charges aren't real, well, you're not above the law, though.

00:09:38.160 How about the facts? Are we above the facts or equal to the facts, I guess? Yeah. So it's

00:09:46.440 never about being above the law. It's always about an imaginary crime that didn't, in many

00:09:53.060 cases, is a crime that didn't happen. So is nobody's above the law, does that apply to a crime

00:09:59.600 that didn't happen? Or a person who wasn't guilty? But the Dems will make it look like

00:10:04.580 it is. And then, of course, there's a whole class of laws that could be broken, and even

00:10:11.680 the prosecutor believes it's not worth pursuing. What's that? That's not somebody being above

00:10:17.720 the law. That's about the law that was broken is too trivial to be worth the effort. So I

00:10:24.680 think, you know, Trump falls into a few of those categories. But whenever you hear this,

00:10:28.600 no one is above the law that is pure partisan BS.

00:10:33.360 So here's my bottom line on Democrats versus Republicans. Now, of course, there are no absolutes. And

00:10:43.020 there's no such thing as all Democrats being alike or all Republicans being alike. That's

00:10:48.560 not a thing. So this is just a generalization. But I think it holds as a generalization. That

00:10:54.220 Democrats like grievances and goals. Grievances and goals. I have a grievance, and my goal is

00:11:03.020 equity. I have a grievance, and my goal is reparations. That sort of thing. Whereas Republicans

00:11:11.420 are far more likely to talk in terms of systems, like the free market system, traditional family

00:11:18.060 systems, religion as a system, the Constitution, basically systems. Now, of course, Democrats also,

00:11:26.620 you know, look at systems and talk about it. Of course, Republicans have goals. But there's

00:11:32.760 a really clear distinction and emphasis. And I see the Republicans default to systems. Like,

00:11:42.860 okay, not everybody could have everything, but at least we could have a system that makes you feel like

00:11:47.820 you were treated fairly in terms of opportunity. It's the best you can do. It's a good system. And the Democrats

00:11:54.860 have this completely irrational view that you can go right to the goal. Give me money, and then we're

00:12:03.160 equitable. Hey, it's pretty simple. You have money. I don't have money. That's not equitable. Give me some

00:12:09.560 of your money. So that's not really a system. It's just like going right to the goal.

00:12:14.380 And I would argue that when they do have something that looks like a system, it's destructive, such

00:12:22.020 as CRT. Critical race theory is about, at least its roots were in getting rid of the family structure

00:12:31.020 and getting rid of anything that supported the civilization the way it was, basically. Because

00:12:36.280 it all needed to be ripped up. Because it was all systemic racism. So I saw a psychologist

00:12:45.040 on a video clip who was saying that grievance-based philosophies lead to violence.

00:12:55.240 So if your filter on life is grievance, you're far more likely to do something violent. Does that make

00:13:02.360 sense? Got to make sense, right? If you're not super unhappy about other people, you're probably

00:13:09.200 not going to get a gun and shoot other people. You have to think there's something wrong externally.

00:13:14.780 And it's affecting you in order to go kill that external stuff. So yes, I would say that critical

00:13:21.280 race theory pretty much guarantees that some number of people who go through that training

00:13:27.000 will have grievance-based violent actions. So I do think CRT creates violence. What do you think?

00:13:39.840 I think you agree. All right. Utah has put on some kind of limits for social media for kids.

00:13:48.920 I didn't even know that was possible. Did you know that a state can put a limit on social media?

00:13:55.060 Okay. So I guess the social media companies will be required if the person signing up is in Utah,

00:14:02.660 that if you're under 18, you have to have permission from parents to have an account.

00:14:07.720 I like that. You also need to be able to prove you are who you are. You can't just lie and say you're 18,

00:14:14.540 I guess. And won't be able to show children ads. And won't be able to use it between 10.30 p.m.

00:14:23.420 and 6.30 a.m. I like all of those. I like all of those. It would have been, you know, maybe I would have

00:14:32.440 preferred it if the parents didn't have to decide on social media, but rather it was just banned.

00:14:40.100 So the children, because the parents are kind of helpless. If you say it's up to the parents whether the kids

00:14:46.280 get social media, then 95% of kids will have social media. I don't think that's what they were trying

00:14:52.200 for. I think they're trying to get that number down. But just having to ask parents won't work,

00:14:59.140 because the kids will just badger the parents until the parents say yes. Yeah.

00:15:03.380 Yeah. But it's good. I like the states trying something. Well, Tucker Carlson illuminated the

00:15:14.800 question of the TikTok ban. I was under the impression that Congress was considering a ban

00:15:20.780 on TikTok. Turns out that's just a lie. They were considering a power grab over all social media,

00:15:27.780 and then they would use it for TikTok. No, not acceptable. Not acceptable. If I had a choice

00:15:37.340 of a TikTok ban or new powers over all of social media, I would rather have TikTok stay in business,

00:15:45.020 as dangerous as it is. But no, I do not agree with the, and maybe it's a poison pill. It could be

00:15:53.120 that Congress, or at least the Democrats, really do not want TikTok banned, but they can't argue it,

00:15:59.580 because it makes it look like they have something, you know, personal in it. And they probably do,

00:16:05.680 because personally it could help them get elected, et cetera. So I've got a feeling that your government

00:16:10.780 is pretending to argue about TikTok, but really it's just a power grab over social media.

00:16:18.060 And I don't support it at all. Here's what I support. A bill targeted at TikTok only, or whatever

00:16:27.040 it becomes. Give me a TikTok only bill, and I will promote the heck out of it. But this general power

00:16:35.040 grab over social media? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That is no, no, no, no, no. And if any Republicans

00:16:45.340 vote for that, they're going to have a lot of explaining. So it could be that the Democrats

00:16:51.440 sort of lured the Republicans into a trap by saying, yeah, yeah, let's all get together

00:16:57.320 and do some bipartisan work on banning TikTok. And I've got an idea. Why do we not limit it

00:17:03.740 to TikTok? Huh? Huh? Every part of this is wrong and creepy. I hope they don't get away

00:17:12.140 with it. Well, the probe into the Stormy Daniels things is now brought into the mix. An ally of

00:17:24.040 President Trump, his name is David Pecker. So as John Thompson tweeted, Pecker becomes part of the

00:17:34.600 probe. So I don't think you can have a Stormy Daniels story without Pecker being part of the

00:17:43.460 probe. That's all. Pecker is part of the probe. All right. That was important. Do you remember

00:17:54.140 when Joe Biden said that if you elect him, you'd finally have an honest president? Finally, we could

00:18:03.620 have a president who doesn't lie to us like that evil orange menace. Well, how's that working out?

00:18:11.240 As Dan Crenshaw said when he was reacting to Biden's State of the Union, quote, the president has devolved

00:18:18.440 into just lying shamelessly about GOP positions to frighten senior citizens into voting for him.

00:18:25.600 And that's what he's doing. He's literally just making stuff up now. And Biden's saying that the

00:18:30.940 border problem, all the number of crossings is because of Trump. I don't have to read that story.

00:18:38.340 He's literally just saying that whatever the Democrats did, they didn't do. It was the Republicans.

00:18:43.900 And the news, the news is so segmented that his base won't know the difference. He can actually say

00:18:53.100 anything. His base will never be exposed to the other argument. It's amazing. So let's see, how many

00:19:01.580 people in a recent Rasmussen poll, let's see, how many people would agree with the statement

00:19:09.760 that Crenshaw's, how many would agree with the Crenshaw statement that Biden is just lying about

00:19:17.660 stuff? Turns out 56 percent of voters agree with the statement that Biden is just lying about stuff

00:19:24.620 now. That means a lot of Democrats, that's a lot of Democrats, joined, you know, pretty much all the

00:19:31.340 Republicans, saying that their own president is just making stuff up. He's just making stuff up.

00:19:38.080 But let's see, how many people do you think would strongly disagree with the idea that Biden

00:19:47.380 is lying? How many would strongly disagree? Oh, there it is, 25 percent. 25 percent. You're

00:19:57.960 very good guessers. 25 percent say, no, no, Biden lying? Are you kidding me? I don't see any

00:20:06.280 Biden lying going on. Maybe you're the liar. Maybe you're the liar if you say Biden's lying. 0.98

00:20:13.080 Huh? Huh? How about that? All right. 0.51

00:20:19.660 I was trying to think, which of Trump's 20,000 lies made any difference at all?

00:20:26.380 What do you think? Did any of Trump's lies during office? Now, January 6th and the election

00:20:35.360 I'm going to talk about. But if you don't count the election and January 6th, is there anything

00:20:42.120 he lied about that made any difference? Because typically it was hyperbole and it was just in

00:20:49.020 service of some policy that you liked if you're a Republican. Now, here's the thing. I don't

00:20:59.420 think Trump lied about the election. I think he believed what he was saying. And it was not

00:21:05.680 accurate in a number of cases. But I believe he actually believed the election was stolen.

00:21:11.120 He acts like somebody who believes it. I mean, I can't read his mind. Don't know. But he looks

00:21:17.720 and acts like somebody who really believed it. Is that lying? Or is that just being wrong

00:21:22.540 if he's wrong? We don't even know if he's wrong. Yeah. So I would argue that nothing that

00:21:31.640 Trump said made any difference, whether it was accurate or not.

00:21:38.520 I don't know if that'll be true with lying Biden now. Maybe his lies won't make any difference

00:21:46.020 either. We'll see. Well, Florida voted and Ron DeSantis signed the bill to give all Florida

00:21:56.280 families school choice. How big a deal is that? Is that the only state with universal school

00:22:05.800 choice? How many states have that now? Six total? Somebody had that answer right away. Six

00:22:14.940 or seven? Good. A lot of this, I wonder how much is Corey DeAngelis just going around and

00:22:22.480 just, you know, working on this issue full time? He seems to be super effective. I don't

00:22:30.540 think it's a coincidence that his work is correlating with all these changes. Very interesting. I'd

00:22:39.680 love to know how he gets paid. Wouldn't you? Who pays Corey DeAngelis? I don't know. But he's

00:22:49.500 doing stuff that I want him to do, so I guess I don't care who pays him. All right. So then

00:22:58.940 we'll see how school choice works in Florida. It's a good experiment. So Biden is still referring

00:23:04.860 to Republicans as extreme MAGA Republicans. Is that good persuasion? Do you think it works

00:23:13.420 to say extreme MAGA Republicans? Unfortunately, I think it does. Yeah. You're going to say no

00:23:21.960 because maybe it doesn't work on you. But I think it does. If you just keep saying it over

00:23:27.960 and over again, people are going to be, oh, he's extreme. Now, that's what Newt did, right?

00:23:37.340 Remember Newt Gingrich? I think he was the one who kept saying, you know, extreme liberal,

00:23:43.380 extreme liberals, those liberals. I think that worked. Don't you? Don't you think that the

00:23:49.660 right sort of rallied against the extreme liberals? So extreme. I think that extreme thing actually

00:23:56.180 works politically because nobody wants to think they're extreme. Well, I'm sure somebody does.

00:24:02.260 But the average voter doesn't want it to be involved with anything extreme. Extreme? Take that away

00:24:09.900 from me. I want ordinary. Don't give me extreme. Yeah. Unfortunately, it works, I think.

00:24:18.120 Here's a statistic I saw that I guess I would just need to check this. Is it

00:24:26.060 true that 21 out of 22 major cities in America are run by black elected officials? Is that

00:24:32.160 true? 21 out of the 22 biggest cities are run by black elected officials? I don't know.

00:24:42.340 That surprised me. I would have thought it'd be more like half of that. But 21 out of 22?

00:24:50.500 22? Does that suggest that diversity was more important than effectiveness? Because the cities

00:25:00.460 are pretty much a mess? It feels like diversity hiring, doesn't it? With the incompetence that

00:25:07.920 you'd expect from that. Yeah. Now, I don't say I'd expect it because the people who got hired

00:25:14.880 are black, I say that as soon as you focus on diversity instead of capability, you limit 1.00

00:25:21.920 the pool of applicants and therefore logically, based on math, you would have fewer chances of

00:25:29.500 getting the right person. So it looks to me like the cities are destroyed by diversity or

00:25:35.420 response to diversity. Is that fair? That's what it looks like. That's what it looks like.

00:25:43.020 There's no way to know for sure, but it has all the markings of destruction by diversity. 1.00

00:25:52.600 Yeah. So I would say get away from the inner cities as far as you can. But you already do that.

00:26:01.080 All right. How do you ignore the fact? Now, are we at a point where we can say that

00:26:14.660 the goal of diversity and DEI and CRT have created a level of incompetence in the country,

00:26:22.760 both in the government and private industry, that is now too much to support the system? I feel like

00:26:33.360 our basic, let's say, adherence to capability and merit have all fallen away. In theory,

00:26:43.920 companies should be failing from diversity. And again, not because the candidates would be lower

00:26:50.620 quality. But as soon as you start favoring diversity, there are fewer people to pick.

00:26:55.700 And everybody's going to be trying to pick those same few people who are just perfect for the job.

00:27:01.080 So in theory, you should end up with lower quality employees. And the whole system should fall apart

00:27:07.820 over time.

00:27:08.320 And is that why the young people see no future? Because they don't see any competence being 1.00

00:27:18.580 applied to anything that's future-oriented?

00:27:25.600 Where the... 0.92

00:27:26.520 Took away the job of the black mayor.

00:27:29.260 Well, I do think that we have a competence crisis. And we have a population crisis. And it all seems to be

00:27:44.680 coming from the same place, doesn't it? So there's an anti-white, anti-family set of beliefs that have

00:27:52.720 taken over. And those will drive you to more racial division and less competence, necessarily.

00:28:01.780 Again, it has nothing to do with the individuals and their capabilities. It's just if you're looking

00:28:07.440 at a smaller pool of applicants, it's just math. You're going to get worse employees. There's no way around

00:28:15.100 that. So, yeah, competence is no longer part of the job. Guess who made this happen, you say?

00:28:27.560 Well, it's not one person. What can we do before it's too late? You know, I've been spending a lot

00:28:34.060 of thinking about that. And I think we need to let the cities deteriorate into, I don't know,

00:28:44.500 basically prison cities, and just stay away from them. And build new cities with like-minded people

00:28:51.140 and new communities with like-minded people. So I think you just have to escape

00:28:56.320 that which can't be fixed. I think the inner cities can't be fixed.

00:29:01.380 I don't see any hope for that.

00:29:05.680 Yeah.

00:29:09.580 Yeah, I would just let it go. I would just let the cities deteriorate.

00:29:12.940 I wouldn't give them any money. I wouldn't do anything. I'd just let them go.

00:29:18.860 But I don't have a better idea. You know, definitely don't have a better idea. I wish I did.

00:29:28.580 Yeah. San Francisco is gone. Yeah. You can imagine Snake Adams.

00:29:34.400 I don't know why I remember that it was Snake Plissken, Escape from New York. Why do I remember the hero's name in that movie? Of all movies. I don't typically remember the name of the hero of a movie.

00:29:53.180 Okay. All right. Escape from New York, yeah.

00:30:01.580 Optimism is natural and pessimism is taught. I don't know. I think optimism is natural too.

00:30:07.200 But you can learn to speak in optimistic tones. So you can teach yourself to act like an optimist.

00:30:21.760 Extra special guilt. Yes, gee. That's not bad.

00:30:25.740 All right. That's all I had for you today.

00:30:27.980 Not a lot of news. Did I leave anything out? Did I forget anything?

00:30:38.040 What did I forget?

00:30:40.140 Is the golden age gone?

00:30:43.140 Well,

00:30:44.680 I don't know if you noticed, but there's a lot going right at the moment.

00:30:51.760 There's a lot going right.

00:30:53.220 It's easy to lose it when everything's going wrong.

00:30:56.980 Now, AI is sort of a wild card.

00:30:59.180 AI will either be good or bad. I don't know.

00:31:05.540 But here's what's good.

00:31:08.500 So what's good is employment is still high.

00:31:11.660 That's good.

00:31:13.020 I don't think we're any closer to nuclear war.

00:31:16.200 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:31:17.440 I think that we're divesting from China.

00:31:20.500 That's good.

00:31:21.040 I think the odds of a Republican president are high coming up.

00:31:28.040 I think that the border is a mess,

00:31:32.220 but it happens to be a mess at the time when our population is declining.

00:31:37.680 Sort of a mixed situation there.

00:31:43.520 So I don't know.

00:31:44.540 We got out of Afghanistan.

00:31:45.800 There are some things going right,

00:31:48.960 but inflation is the macro thing going wrong.

00:31:53.160 So I think banks will be okay.

00:31:56.060 I think banks will be okay.

00:31:57.740 I just think inflation will just keep chipping at us.

00:32:02.180 I mean,

00:32:03.060 I'll lose maybe a third of my net wealth

00:32:05.560 just to inflation.

00:32:09.820 What do you think?

00:32:12.220 Do you think you'll lose a third of your net wealth to inflation?

00:32:17.220 Yeah, we all will, right?

00:32:18.540 It shouldn't be the same for everybody.

00:32:20.440 Yeah.

00:32:21.120 About a third.

00:32:22.640 Now, if most of your net wealth is in your house

00:32:24.900 and your house doesn't go down in value,

00:32:27.260 then you're in good shape.

00:32:28.800 But if you just have...

00:32:30.660 Well, are you?

00:32:32.960 I don't know.

00:32:33.320 But if you own stocks

00:32:34.960 and the stocks get killed by inflation,

00:32:37.440 you're all in the same boat.

00:32:42.320 Would Jimmy Dore make a good president?

00:32:44.800 No.

00:32:47.680 That's all I'll say about that.

00:32:49.820 No.

00:32:57.700 Will people pull money from banks

00:33:00.140 to see higher returns?

00:33:02.620 Probably.

00:33:03.320 But I think we'll figure out a way

00:33:07.900 to keep the banks alive.

00:33:11.260 Yeah, food prices are crazy.

00:33:15.120 If we switch to a digital currency,

00:33:17.760 well,

00:33:19.160 here's the problem.

00:33:22.840 Do you know why

00:33:24.040 it took so long

00:33:25.620 for

00:33:26.340 some kind of background check

00:33:29.640 system for illegal immigrant hiring?

00:33:33.320 I don't know the answer,

00:33:34.960 but I think that

00:33:35.800 the government knows

00:33:37.820 that if

00:33:39.400 all the illegal immigrants 1.00

00:33:42.900 were taken out of the businesses

00:33:44.240 that they were working for,

00:33:45.840 that the economy would collapse

00:33:47.560 in some places.

00:33:49.460 So I think

00:33:49.960 there's sort of a

00:33:51.860 turning the other way

00:33:53.240 about illegal employees,

00:33:55.760 because it's just easier

00:33:57.480 to have illegal employees,

00:33:59.640 because those jobs

00:34:00.800 were not getting filled

00:34:01.600 by anybody else.

00:34:03.680 So

00:34:04.020 there are some problems

00:34:08.240 that people don't try to fix.

00:34:10.100 They just act like they are.

00:34:11.380 Yeah.

00:34:20.860 So here's what,

00:34:21.600 here's the problem.

00:34:22.360 If you introduce

00:34:23.180 the digital currency,

00:34:25.300 then people who cheated

00:34:26.440 on their taxes

00:34:27.220 wouldn't be able to do it.

00:34:29.300 So your server

00:34:30.700 at your restaurant

00:34:31.540 would have to claim

00:34:32.380 all of their taxes,

00:34:33.760 because the government

00:34:34.400 would presumably

00:34:35.080 see the transactions.

00:34:36.120 and

00:34:37.700 that would destroy,

00:34:41.160 you know,

00:34:41.560 the restaurant business

00:34:42.520 would end, basically.

00:34:50.620 All right.

00:34:52.840 National sales

00:34:53.880 or VAT techs,

00:34:55.080 maybe.

00:34:59.400 Yeah.

00:34:59.920 How do you sell your car?

00:35:00.920 Well, you sell it

00:35:01.440 with digital currency.

00:35:02.780 Use your app

00:35:03.480 and sell your car.

00:35:06.120 Do I prep?

00:35:10.340 I mean,

00:35:10.740 for the end of the world?

00:35:12.220 No, I just do

00:35:13.680 some basic stuff.

00:35:16.860 Vivek and Tulsi?

00:35:19.320 Yeah, I don't see that.

00:35:23.360 I don't see that.

00:35:27.100 Would we even need banks

00:35:28.480 if we had digital currency?

00:35:30.420 No.

00:35:30.860 No.

00:35:34.040 You know,

00:35:35.060 banking,

00:35:35.540 banking only exists

00:35:37.600 the way it does

00:35:38.400 because banks

00:35:39.760 can bribe politicians

00:35:41.760 to keep things

00:35:42.800 the way they are.

00:35:44.500 We're at a point

00:35:45.500 where one app

00:35:46.500 should do all of your

00:35:47.220 banking for free,

00:35:48.880 you know,

00:35:49.040 for $8 a month

00:35:50.080 for the app

00:35:50.720 or whatever.

00:35:51.920 Yeah.

00:35:52.480 You should just have

00:35:53.320 one app

00:35:53.720 that does all your banking.

00:35:55.280 Did it ever make sense

00:35:56.560 that you would have

00:35:58.900 two different accounts,

00:36:01.000 a checking account

00:36:01.840 and a savings account?

00:36:02.760 How did that

00:36:03.820 ever make sense?

00:36:04.660 It never made sense.

00:36:06.720 You should just have money.

00:36:08.700 You just put money

00:36:09.600 in the bank

00:36:10.180 and if you have money

00:36:12.280 in the bank

00:36:12.740 they pay you interest

00:36:13.740 and if you take a loan

00:36:16.000 for more money

00:36:16.760 than you have in the bank

00:36:17.620 you pay them interest.

00:36:19.020 that's it.

00:36:20.840 That should be the whole story.

00:36:23.240 You could also imagine

00:36:24.500 a world

00:36:25.000 where your

00:36:26.260 loan application

00:36:27.720 is evaluated

00:36:28.460 by your neighbors.

00:36:31.960 You could have the app,

00:36:33.240 you know,

00:36:33.580 ask all the questions

00:36:34.600 and then

00:36:35.780 talk to the neighbors

00:36:36.820 and the neighbors

00:36:38.340 would be like,

00:36:39.140 no,

00:36:39.960 that's a known

00:36:40.860 scammer there.

00:36:43.340 I'll just throw out

00:36:44.240 some ideas.

00:36:44.760 But no,

00:36:46.000 banks are obsolete.

00:36:48.840 There's no reason

00:36:49.860 for a bank.

00:36:51.680 But,

00:36:52.240 they will remain

00:36:52.940 for a long time

00:36:53.960 because they can

00:36:54.540 bribe politicians

00:36:55.380 to stay in business.

00:36:56.820 Put up walls

00:36:57.380 against competition.

00:36:58.260 I seem off today.

00:37:04.660 Am I tired

00:37:05.140 or depressed?

00:37:05.840 Well,

00:37:05.980 I got up at

00:37:06.740 12.30 a.m.

00:37:13.400 And

00:37:13.800 I fell asleep

00:37:15.720 for a minute

00:37:16.160 and got up

00:37:16.640 at 2.30

00:37:17.440 and

00:37:18.960 racked in pain

00:37:20.320 as I wake up

00:37:21.600 in pain

00:37:21.940 every day.

00:37:22.900 Part of the reason

00:37:23.580 that I

00:37:24.680 have trouble sleeping

00:37:25.780 is it's painful.

00:37:27.360 It hurts.

00:37:28.980 Does anybody else

00:37:29.580 have that?

00:37:30.660 The longer I stay

00:37:31.480 in bed,

00:37:31.820 the more it hurts.

00:37:33.780 My body starts

00:37:34.760 itching,

00:37:35.180 my back hurts.

00:37:37.000 It just all hurts.

00:37:39.520 So,

00:37:39.960 I have to get

00:37:40.320 out of bed.

00:37:42.900 So,

00:37:43.660 at 3.30

00:37:45.340 I just called

00:37:46.760 the game

00:37:47.180 and said,

00:37:47.700 all right,

00:37:48.260 I'm not asleep anymore.

00:37:49.540 So,

00:37:49.780 at 3.30

00:37:50.220 I got up.

00:37:51.740 That's probably

00:37:52.360 what you hear

00:37:52.820 in my voice.

00:37:56.740 Senior living?

00:37:57.680 Yeah,

00:37:57.960 maybe.

00:37:58.660 No,

00:37:59.120 I overdosed

00:38:00.580 on coffee

00:38:01.180 yesterday.

00:38:01.960 I know exactly

00:38:02.600 what I did

00:38:03.100 to myself.

00:38:03.980 It was just

00:38:04.360 coffee.

00:38:07.540 Yeah,

00:38:07.860 age is part

00:38:08.480 of it,

00:38:08.800 for sure.

00:38:10.560 No,

00:38:11.000 I've tried

00:38:11.360 every mattress.

00:38:12.220 They're all

00:38:12.500 the same.

00:38:13.740 I mean,

00:38:13.980 I've really

00:38:14.400 tried every

00:38:15.160 mattress.

00:38:15.860 This has

00:38:16.320 been my

00:38:16.600 whole life.

00:38:17.820 So,

00:38:18.060 the screaming

00:38:19.160 pain when I

00:38:19.840 wake up

00:38:20.400 is not

00:38:21.720 because of

00:38:22.340 my age.

00:38:23.060 That's just

00:38:23.660 always been

00:38:24.080 there.

00:38:24.280 It takes

00:38:26.300 about

00:38:26.860 15 minutes

00:38:29.940 before the

00:38:30.420 pain goes

00:38:30.820 away.

00:38:32.140 So,

00:38:32.440 I don't

00:38:33.100 like getting

00:38:33.540 up and I

00:38:34.240 don't like

00:38:34.700 sleeping.

00:38:35.480 My two

00:38:35.900 least favorite

00:38:36.480 things

00:38:36.900 is diet.

00:38:40.700 I don't

00:38:41.180 think so.

00:38:42.800 Yeah,

00:38:43.060 it's all

00:38:43.300 lower back.

00:38:52.120 Transcranial

00:38:52.560 devices.

00:38:53.180 I don't

00:38:53.420 have a

00:38:53.700 problem

00:38:53.920 getting to

00:38:54.460 sleep.

00:38:55.720 It's just

00:38:56.140 that when I

00:38:56.680 wake up,

00:38:57.160 I'm done

00:38:57.480 sleeping.

00:39:02.440 Start eating

00:39:03.080 meat.

00:39:04.820 Why is it

00:39:05.600 that no

00:39:05.920 matter what

00:39:06.440 is going

00:39:06.860 wrong with

00:39:07.280 me,

00:39:07.500 somebody

00:39:07.740 will say

00:39:08.060 I should

00:39:08.380 eat meat?

00:39:09.420 Like,

00:39:09.660 no matter

00:39:09.980 what it

00:39:10.320 is,

00:39:11.360 you've

00:39:11.720 got

00:39:11.740 to

00:39:11.780 eat

00:39:11.900 some

00:39:12.020 meat.

00:39:16.320 All right.

00:39:18.280 Did I

00:39:18.800 have a

00:39:19.020 childhood

00:39:19.300 injury?

00:39:19.960 No.

00:39:21.460 No.

00:39:21.840 And my

00:39:22.100 back doesn't

00:39:22.660 hurt most

00:39:24.340 of the

00:39:24.520 day.

00:39:25.660 It just

00:39:26.580 hurts when

00:39:26.920 I sleep

00:39:27.300 and when

00:39:28.200 I get

00:39:28.420 up.

00:39:30.340 Sleeping

00:39:30.800 in a

00:39:31.080 chair?

00:39:31.720 Yes.

00:39:32.400 I sleep

00:39:32.860 in my

00:39:33.160 massage

00:39:33.480 chair

00:39:33.740 sometimes.

00:39:35.280 But for

00:39:36.120 some reason,

00:39:37.440 since you

00:39:37.860 can't move

00:39:38.320 around to

00:39:38.780 different

00:39:39.040 positions in

00:39:39.780 a massage

00:39:40.220 chair,

00:39:41.120 you can

00:39:41.580 only stay

00:39:41.920 there for

00:39:42.220 like an

00:39:42.480 hour.

00:39:44.600 All right.

00:39:45.180 That's enough

00:39:45.580 about this.

00:39:46.280 Enough about

00:39:46.780 me.

00:39:48.060 Enough about

00:39:48.640 me.

00:39:49.060 Elevate my

00:39:49.620 knees.

00:39:50.240 My God,

00:39:50.660 that sounds

00:39:51.180 sexual.

00:39:52.940 All right.

00:39:53.700 Bye,

00:39:54.040 YouTube.

00:39:54.380 I'm going to

00:39:54.660 talk to the

00:39:55.440 lovely people

00:39:56.220 and locals

00:39:56.680 a little extra.

00:39:58.100 And don't

00:39:58.420 you wish you

00:39:58.860 subscribed over

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 28, 2023

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