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

Date: 2020-04-29 | Duration: 10:55

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Frolicking with Boo The Cat and answering viewer questi…

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[0:12]

[Music] look what I got anybody q-tip it's that q-tip one boob look okay entertain the folks oh man total waste of q-tip alright cats need to know what's on the other side of the door so let's talk let's chat boo
she's a talker all right boo sorry I'm late today everybody ooh do you see this do you see this this could

[1:15]

you see this do you see this this could be exciting this is your moment ooh here we go that's some cat action right there you know if you watch that documentary that the tiger came and you couldn't get enough this is really sort of like that it's just on a smaller scale okay apparently that bath mat will have to be replaced after she rips it to shreds
there's the beauty shot right there she looks away it's almost like cats understated what what cameras are they will not look into the camera I'm not in

[2:18]

will not look into the camera I'm not in the toilet per se I'm in the outer bathroom issue area most of you if I took bath that would be my view okay let's get to the questions does anyone have a question that they would like to ask a little guest yes oh you can hear me I'm good how are you doing good good what is your question for me

[3:20]

what is your question for me I am wondering about the lockdown well specifically with how are they going to
so I'm trying to get my thought into something coherent take your time alright sorry the question is with regards to a resurgence with the lock how do you think they're going to handle a resurgence let's say New York City they unlock and then a few weeks later their cases climb up again what do you think they'll do do you think the public will accept another severe lockdown well they will if there's data to back it up so if hospitals are over a capacity then yes and if if what is asked of people sounds reasonable

[4:21]

reasonable that yes I don't think people are willing to not go to parks and you know places where it's just obviously safer so I think there would be some revalue there but I think these things sort of trend it toward the reasonable and the reasonable would be if if the hospital's impact they back off a little bit but if they do it intelligently yeah I think people will comply they just have to see some pretty hard data to do it if it's done if it's done with sketchy data or it's done in a way that people think is premature which would be hard to judge did you that that you know that problem of people being infected don't really show up for a week so it could be that it'll be another one of those decisions where we just don't have the right data and yet you have to make a decision it feels like this whole coronavirus situation has been that over and over which is no we don't have the right data

[5:22]

which is no we don't have the right data yes yeah it's very muddied with the if no action was taken we really don't know would we have seen hundreds of thousands or we have seen millions it's very difficult to compare given that what the action was taken well I think the interesting thing is I think we'll know the answer to that because at some point we'll have enough testing that it were a long way from this I think so they lacked enough testing to know how many people have already been exposed and recovered okay and then how many people died so once once we know those two things we'll have a sense of how you know how catchy it was house ready or viral it was because it you know it's both factors is the death rate but it's also you know how quickly other people catch it so we'll actually we'll we'll have the numbers we need to calculate what would have happened if it had

[6:24]

have happened if it had progressed farther and faster I think I think we'll be able to work it out maybe
all right thanks for the question sorry about my piggy end over there right I'm gonna have to take the guest who's icon is a Clorox bubble Oh Clorox went away I ain't feeling that the Clorox icon personal tool is gonna be interesting all right despite the fact that you have a Calvin and Hobbes icon okay that one doesn't want to come either all right seems that people are yelling out quickly here all right finally do you have a question for me

[7:30]

you were not monitoring your phones yeah I'm here oh there you are all right do you have a question for me yeah I do actually didn't know you were me you're calling me but uh yeah I um I wanted to talk to you about the what you said about it's more sustainable to have universal basic income than what we have now but I have to disagree because if it's funded by printing more money what what makes it more sustainable well I don't know what context I might have said more sustainable so I don't even know what that opinion is hard to defend it I'll just tell you what I think about you behind maybe that will answer your question what I think is there's no way we're going to know unless it's tested the beauty of it is it's testable so you know you could you could tiptoe in and I wouldn't prepare anything that we do in the in the context of an emergency with

[8:33]

the in the context of an emergency with what makes sense for the long run so it could be a good idea and the other and the cameras nobody's really smart enough to know if the answer were if the answer could be derived by bath or some kind of you know model that was you know even a little bit credible or even if waters even if why is people all agreed you know you'd have something but we don't have any of those things we don't have we don't have experience data models we just sort of be guessing kept them there for testing it's the only thing that makes sense can I set a way that would be I'm sorry what can I propose a way that I think would make it sustainable yes if you can do it in a brief fashion to demonstrate your mastery over communications I think if we switched over to a consumption tax to fund it rather than an income tax because the problem with an income tax if you're funding you be is there's less

[9:35]

if you're funding you be is there's less people making incomes through the free market to fund it but if you if you if we switch to a consumption then the tax from that everyone everyone buys stuff so everyone will be contributing not just the people earning incomes well of course these things it if it were as simple as that it would be back to we would have some experience or some data or some reliable models or stuff so those are the sorts of ideas that smart people will disagree because there's no real way to know is that a good idea maybe the obvious the obvious drawback but who knows if it's a big enough drawback is that a consumption tax will you know cause people to buy less stuff so what does that do to you it might be to move in there because there wouldn't be like corporate taxes and stuff it'll generate more entrepreneurship in the in the sense that you're replacing it replacing some taxes with other ones so it's more encouraging to start a

[10:35]

it's more encouraging to start a business then this is what Mary so so it would be more it would be more encouraging we're encouraging to start a business but there would be fewer customers because the customers would be giving tax on what they purchase yeah but so you'd be increasing the number of companies will decrease