Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 29, 2020


Episode 942 Scott Adams： Playing With My Cat and Answering Viewer Questi...


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Length

11 minutes

Words per Minute

125.39468

Word Count

1,390

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

In this episode, we discuss the coronavirus crisis in the United States, the recent lockdown in New York City, and the future of universal basic income. We also discuss the cat attack on a bath mat, and whether or not basic income is sustainable.


Transcript

00:00:00.780 Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
00:00:03.000 Bum bum bum bum bum
00:00:06.440 Bum bum bum bum bum
00:00:09.160 Boo
00:00:10.320 Boo
00:00:12.420 Look what I got
00:00:13.860 Hey Boo
00:00:15.440 Boo
00:00:19.920 That's a Q-tip
00:00:21.700 That's a Q-tip
00:00:24.220 Come on Boo
00:00:25.460 Look
00:00:26.320 Let us entertain the folks
00:00:28.260 oh man
00:00:29.960 a total wasted Q-tip
00:00:32.560 all right
00:00:37.300 cats need to know what's on the other side of the door
00:00:41.820 so
00:00:43.860 let's talk
00:00:46.480 let's chat
00:00:47.920 boohoo
00:00:55.420 she's a dogger
00:00:59.740 all right boo
00:01:07.220 sorry I'm late today
00:01:09.580 everybody
00:01:10.500 boo do you see this
00:01:12.220 this could be exciting
00:01:15.520 this is your moment
00:01:16.500 boo
00:01:16.960 here we go
00:01:19.740 that's some cat action right there
00:01:22.520 you know if you
00:01:25.300 watch that documentary
00:01:26.460 that the tiger came
00:01:29.280 and you couldn't get enough
00:01:31.580 this is really sort of like that
00:01:34.100 it's just on a smaller scale
00:01:37.100 okay apparently that bath mat
00:01:42.580 will have to be replaced
00:01:45.440 after she rips it to shreds
00:01:47.420 she's very vocal
00:01:50.900 wow
00:01:52.380 wow
00:01:55.740 wow
00:01:56.220 there's the beauty shot
00:02:03.320 right there
00:02:04.260 she looks away
00:02:06.460 it's almost like cats
00:02:08.400 understand what
00:02:09.380 what cameras are
00:02:11.340 they will not look into the camera
00:02:14.480 I'm not in the toilet per se
00:02:20.060 I'm in the outer
00:02:23.040 bathroom-ish area
00:02:25.440 want to see the view
00:02:33.720 if I took baths
00:02:40.180 that would be my view
00:02:41.600 all right let's get to the questions
00:02:49.140 does anyone have a question
00:02:56.400 that they would like to ask
00:02:58.160 hello guest
00:03:04.620 guest
00:03:08.120 hi can you hear me
00:03:11.120 I'm good how are you doing
00:03:16.580 good good
00:03:17.740 what is your question for me
00:03:20.320 I am wondering about
00:03:25.080 the lockdown
00:03:27.780 more specifically with
00:03:32.560 how are they going to
00:03:36.280 sorry I'm trying to get my thought
00:03:41.000 into something coherent
00:03:42.260 take your time
00:03:44.360 all right
00:03:45.860 sorry
00:03:46.400 the question is with regards to
00:03:47.980 a resurgence
00:03:48.740 with the lockdown
00:03:50.200 how do you think they're going to
00:03:52.820 handle a resurgence
00:03:54.400 let's say in New York City
00:03:55.480 they
00:03:55.920 unlock
00:03:57.400 and then a few weeks later
00:03:59.360 their cases climb up again
00:04:00.820 what do you think they'll do
00:04:01.740 do you think the public will accept
00:04:03.500 another
00:04:04.700 severe lockdown
00:04:05.920 well
00:04:08.080 they will if there's data
00:04:09.780 to back it up
00:04:10.920 so
00:04:11.760 if the hospitals are
00:04:13.420 over at capacity
00:04:15.380 then yes
00:04:16.640 and if
00:04:17.820 if what is asked of people
00:04:19.680 sounds reasonable
00:04:20.660 then yes
00:04:21.660 I don't think people are willing to
00:04:24.220 not go to parks
00:04:25.960 and
00:04:27.300 you know
00:04:28.040 places where it's just obviously safer
00:04:30.260 so
00:04:31.340 I think there would be some rebellion there
00:04:33.120 but
00:04:33.320 I think these things
00:04:34.260 sort of
00:04:35.380 trend
00:04:36.560 toward the reasonable
00:04:38.060 and the reasonable
00:04:39.720 would be
00:04:40.500 if
00:04:41.200 if the hospitals get packed
00:04:42.900 they back off a little bit
00:04:44.820 but if they do it intelligently
00:04:46.220 yeah
00:04:46.580 I think people will comply
00:04:47.680 they just have to see some pretty hard data
00:04:49.960 to do it
00:04:50.480 if it's done
00:04:51.720 if it's done with sketchy data
00:04:53.920 or it's done
00:04:55.420 in a way that people think is premature
00:04:57.480 which would be hard to judge
00:04:59.840 because you've got that
00:05:00.940 you know
00:05:01.740 that problem
00:05:02.360 of people being infected
00:05:03.820 don't really show up for a week
00:05:05.200 so
00:05:06.460 it could be that it'll be another one of those decisions
00:05:08.860 where
00:05:09.340 we just don't have the right data
00:05:12.000 and yet you have to make a decision
00:05:14.500 it feels like this whole
00:05:15.960 coronavirus situation
00:05:17.800 has been that over and over
00:05:19.280 which is
00:05:20.600 we don't
00:05:21.120 we don't have the right data
00:05:22.480 and
00:05:23.780 yes
00:05:24.060 yeah it's very muddied
00:05:27.160 with the
00:05:27.660 if no action was taken
00:05:29.100 we really don't know
00:05:30.420 would we have seen
00:05:32.320 hundreds of thousands
00:05:33.260 or would we have seen millions
00:05:34.720 it's very difficult to compare
00:05:37.220 given that
00:05:37.700 the action was taken
00:05:39.240 well I think
00:05:41.000 the
00:05:41.920 the interesting thing is
00:05:43.400 I think we'll know the answer to that
00:05:45.320 because
00:05:46.120 at some point
00:05:47.000 we'll have enough testing
00:05:48.060 that
00:05:49.200 we're a long way from this
00:05:50.400 I think
00:05:50.760 someday we'll have enough testing
00:05:52.420 to know
00:05:52.920 how many people
00:05:53.760 have already been exposed
00:05:55.520 and recovered
00:05:57.040 okay
00:05:57.540 and then how many people died
00:05:59.540 so once
00:06:00.060 once we know those two things
00:06:01.940 we'll have a sense of how
00:06:03.780 you know
00:06:04.820 how catchy it was
00:06:06.140 how sweaty
00:06:06.860 or viral it was
00:06:08.060 because
00:06:08.960 you know
00:06:09.360 it's both factors
00:06:10.160 it's the death rate
00:06:11.500 but it's also
00:06:12.480 you know
00:06:13.420 how quickly
00:06:14.100 other people catch it
00:06:15.680 so we'll actually
00:06:17.280 we'll
00:06:18.400 we'll have the numbers
00:06:20.100 we need
00:06:20.700 to calculate
00:06:21.520 what would have happened
00:06:22.720 if it had
00:06:24.140 you know
00:06:24.640 progressed farther
00:06:25.520 and faster
00:06:25.960 I think
00:06:26.400 I think we'll be able
00:06:27.340 to work it out
00:06:27.960 maybe
00:06:28.660 okay
00:06:29.620 or we'll just never agree
00:06:31.060 all right
00:06:32.240 thanks for the questions
00:06:33.040 sorry about my
00:06:35.480 big hand
00:06:36.540 all over there
00:06:37.160 all right
00:06:40.820 I'm gonna have to take
00:06:44.960 the guest
00:06:46.440 whose icon
00:06:47.840 is a Clorox bottle
00:06:49.260 oh Clorox went away
00:06:53.100 I had a feeling that
00:06:55.040 the Clorox icon person
00:06:57.660 was gonna be interesting
00:06:58.740 all right
00:07:00.120 despite the fact
00:07:02.000 that you have
00:07:03.440 a Calvin
00:07:03.900 and Hobbes
00:07:05.300 icon
00:07:06.480 okay
00:07:07.660 that one doesn't
00:07:08.280 want to come either
00:07:08.960 all right
00:07:09.760 seems that
00:07:11.980 people are
00:07:12.980 bailing out
00:07:14.120 quickly here
00:07:14.820 all right
00:07:20.140 finally
00:07:21.100 do you have a question
00:07:23.140 for me
00:07:23.600 you are not
00:07:27.920 monitoring your phone
00:07:29.040 yay I'm here
00:07:30.720 oh there you are
00:07:32.260 all right
00:07:32.720 do you have a question
00:07:33.900 for me
00:07:34.360 yeah I do actually
00:07:35.940 didn't know you were me
00:07:37.260 you were calling me
00:07:38.460 but yeah I
00:07:39.900 I wanted to talk to you
00:07:41.760 about the
00:07:42.180 what you said about
00:07:44.580 it's more sustainable
00:07:46.240 to have
00:07:48.240 universal basic income
00:07:51.180 than what we have now
00:07:53.080 but I have to disagree
00:07:55.560 because if
00:07:56.360 if it's funded by
00:07:57.380 printing more money
00:07:58.240 what
00:07:58.540 what makes it
00:07:59.840 more sustainable
00:08:01.300 well I don't know
00:08:03.220 what context
00:08:04.180 I might have said
00:08:05.420 we're sustainable
00:08:06.300 so I don't even know
00:08:07.360 what that opinion is
00:08:08.480 so it's hard to defend it
00:08:09.780 I'll just tell you
00:08:11.380 what I think about UVI
00:08:12.840 and maybe that
00:08:13.360 will answer your question
00:08:14.140 what I think is
00:08:15.760 there's no way
00:08:16.520 we're gonna know
00:08:17.200 unless it gets tested
00:08:18.340 the beauty of it is
00:08:20.260 it's testable
00:08:21.580 so you know
00:08:23.800 you could
00:08:24.160 you could tiptoe in
00:08:25.340 and I don't
00:08:27.560 I wouldn't compare
00:08:28.320 anything that we do
00:08:29.240 in the
00:08:29.880 in the context of
00:08:31.640 an emergency
00:08:32.520 with what makes sense
00:08:34.160 for the long run
00:08:34.940 so it could be
00:08:36.420 a good idea in one
00:08:37.640 but not in the other
00:08:38.580 and again
00:08:39.420 nobody's really smart
00:08:41.080 enough to know
00:08:41.720 if the answer
00:08:43.060 if the answer
00:08:44.420 could be derived
00:08:45.380 by math
00:08:46.260 or some kind of
00:08:48.440 you know
00:08:48.880 model that was
00:08:50.000 you know
00:08:50.580 even a little bit
00:08:51.400 credible
00:08:51.800 or even if
00:08:53.860 wise
00:08:54.320 even if wise
00:08:55.820 people all agreed
00:08:57.300 you know
00:08:58.460 then you'd have something
00:08:59.240 but we don't have
00:09:00.220 any of those things
00:09:01.000 we don't have
00:09:01.640 we don't have
00:09:02.260 experience
00:09:02.720 data
00:09:03.420 models
00:09:04.080 we're
00:09:05.460 we just sort of
00:09:06.600 be guessing
00:09:07.200 therefore
00:09:08.600 testing is the only
00:09:09.760 thing that makes sense
00:09:11.000 can I
00:09:11.400 propose
00:09:11.720 a way
00:09:12.420 that I think
00:09:17.800 would make it
00:09:18.340 sustainable
00:09:18.800 yes
00:09:19.900 if you can do it
00:09:20.700 in a brief fashion
00:09:21.740 to demonstrate
00:09:22.540 your mastery
00:09:23.260 over
00:09:23.880 communications
00:09:25.060 I think
00:09:26.960 if we switched
00:09:27.760 over to a
00:09:28.340 consumption tax
00:09:29.440 to fund it
00:09:30.300 rather than
00:09:30.700 an income tax
00:09:31.400 because the
00:09:31.700 problem with
00:09:32.060 an income tax
00:09:32.980 if you're funding
00:09:34.100 UBIs
00:09:34.660 there's less
00:09:35.120 people making
00:09:35.700 incomes
00:09:36.240 through the
00:09:36.800 free market
00:09:37.300 to fund it
00:09:38.040 but if you're
00:09:39.040 if you
00:09:39.480 if we switch
00:09:40.280 to a consumption
00:09:41.440 tax
00:09:41.820 then
00:09:43.080 the tax
00:09:44.560 from that
00:09:45.180 everyone
00:09:45.800 everyone buys
00:09:46.640 stuff
00:09:46.960 so everyone
00:09:48.180 will be
00:09:48.540 contributing
00:09:49.000 not just the
00:09:49.640 people earning
00:09:50.320 incomes
00:09:50.920 well of course
00:09:52.500 these things
00:09:53.280 if it were
00:09:55.040 as simple
00:09:55.460 as that
00:09:55.940 it would be
00:09:56.760 back to
00:09:57.420 we would have
00:09:58.400 some experience
00:09:59.220 or some data
00:09:59.860 or some reliable
00:10:00.820 models or stuff
00:10:01.660 those are the
00:10:02.720 sorts of ideas
00:10:03.460 that smart
00:10:04.780 people will disagree
00:10:05.740 because there's
00:10:06.400 no real way
00:10:07.020 to know
00:10:07.460 if that'd be
00:10:08.560 a good idea
00:10:09.080 I mean the
00:10:09.700 obvious
00:10:10.160 the obvious
00:10:10.900 drawback
00:10:11.680 but who knows
00:10:12.980 if it's a big
00:10:13.600 enough drawback
00:10:14.440 is that
00:10:15.540 a consumption
00:10:16.300 tax will
00:10:17.120 you know
00:10:17.840 cause people
00:10:18.380 to buy less
00:10:19.020 stuff
00:10:19.360 so what does
00:10:20.260 that do
00:10:20.640 to your
00:10:21.260 it might
00:10:22.180 get more
00:10:22.700 businesses
00:10:23.140 to move
00:10:23.660 in though
00:10:24.020 because there
00:10:24.620 wouldn't be
00:10:25.220 like corporate
00:10:26.180 taxes and stuff
00:10:27.060 it'll generate
00:10:27.780 more entrepreneurship
00:10:29.260 in the sense
00:10:30.260 that you're
00:10:30.580 replacing it
00:10:31.340 replacing some
00:10:32.580 taxes with
00:10:33.160 other ones
00:10:33.520 so it's
00:10:34.300 more encouraging
00:10:35.000 to start a
00:10:35.920 business
00:10:36.220 then
00:10:36.560 this is
00:10:37.940 what Gary
00:10:38.300 so
00:10:39.020 so it would
00:10:40.300 be more
00:10:40.760 it would be
00:10:41.300 more encouraging
00:10:42.060 more encouraging
00:10:43.620 to start a
00:10:44.460 business
00:10:44.880 but there
00:10:45.820 would be
00:10:46.140 fewer
00:10:46.520 customers
00:10:47.140 because the
00:10:48.480 customers
00:10:48.880 would be
00:10:49.320 getting taxed
00:10:50.080 on what
00:10:50.360 they purchased
00:10:51.080 so you'd
00:10:52.000 be increasing
00:10:52.640 the number
00:10:53.140 of companies
00:10:53.760 will decrease
00:10:54.480 so you're
00:10:57.260 going to
00:10:57.980 where
00:10:59.340 it
00:11:00.180 means
00:11:00.420 it
00:11:00.780 would be
00:11:01.020 San