Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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ing why should I pay money for your problem? And then you're done. That's a good argument. Why should I pay money for your problem? Are you paying money for my problem? You know, so you have an argument at least. But corporations have no argument. And here's how I would do it. I would say corporations, you will be required to train anybody Black who wants to be trained. That's it. Just, you know,…

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ust monitoring the comments as they're going by. Yeah, there's literally no argument against that because the technology already exists. The entire price of it is trivial. Like the cost is almost nothing. I mean it rounds to nothing. It's so cheap. It's instant. It solves the problem. Why not?

Well I think the answer is that this was never about solving the problem, right? As we started, if anybody cared about solving the problem the tools are right there. But it just shows you that that's not really what's happening. What's happening is you've got two sides that are trying to game the rules to win an election. That's all that's happening. Everything else about fairness and racism and it's nothing to do with it. It's just about somebody trying to win the election.

All right. I saw an article about why Africa is not having such a problem with the coronavirus relative to the other countries. And Andre's back house after I tweeted it. I thought it was pretty good and worth reading. And Andre's just put a comment that the quality of it was in the data I guess was so low that you should just ignore the whole thing, which maybe you should.

But here are the things that Africa has going for it. Low obesity.

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They have less air conditioning. I didn't see that mentioned but don't you think the air conditioning, just the forced circulating of air, wouldn't that make a difference if it's an airborne virus? If you have less AC wouldn't that give you less problems? I don't know. They're younger of course, much younger. That makes a big difference as people pointed out. Their record-keeping might be flawed…

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