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Back to episode — Episode 2279 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/01/23, Solving US Debt Problem And More

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use they were saying things? Well if it's inciting it's going to be everybody. I'll tell you my interpretation of this is that Democrats mostly are looking for any excuse to increase the number of Republicans they're putting in jail which I call hunting. This to me looks like lawfare hunting where they're literally looking for Republicans that they can jail to make sure that Republicans stay in li…

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nd I think he could make a very good story that would say what we're doing with energy and what we're doing with new tech and robots and AI and quantum computing. And he's going to have to make an argument that we need a second industrial revolution. We need to bring our manufacturing back from China in the smartest way. You know not in a complete way but in the smartest way so that we're manufacturing the things that we care about. Pharmaceuticals in particular. And we need to figure out how to build our own chip factory so we're not depending on the one Taiwan Semiconductor factory. By the way do you know the story that the biggest chip maker is it Taiwan Semiconductor in Taiwan the one that we're totally dependent on. The entrepreneur for that tried to build it in Texas and was rejected. He couldn't build it in Texas so he went to where he could build it and he went to Taiwan. Man is that on us. That is so on us. God what a fuck up. That's like the fuck up of the last 200 years. Letting that guy go start the big essential chip company in another country that we have to protect I guess right. It couldn't have been a more fucked up situation right. If it had gone to any other country it would have been suboptimal but it went to Taiwan. I mean it might have gone to Gaza. Like is there any other way we could make that more fucked up? So there are a lot of things that Vivek could make a good story for a solution. Trump could do it too. Trump likes to keep things a little simpler so I don't know that this is his ideal approach. And Trump also is a little less about the new technology so you know Vivek is going to understand the AI plus quantum computing changes everything. Trump you know might have heard that story but I doubt that would become part of his narrative. You know it's a little bit more futuristic than Trump usually talks but to be fair when Trump talks about building these new cities from scratch I think that the new technologies plus the new cities could be the biggest boom in building and industrial everything could solve housing by bringing the cost down. There's just a whole bunch of ways that Trump could use a real estate focus to fix the economy but he would fix energy first. Trump would fix energy because that's a big part of the building and the construction puzzle. Yeah Trump is actually very good about talking about the golden future but I don't know if he could quite get AI robots and quantum computing right but Vivek could. There's a reason I'm biased toward young. Right it makes sense to be a little biased toward the young at the moment.

Speaking of that do you know that the politicians who are driving up our debt, the most powerful politicians are the ones who are about a year away from being dead themselves. If you were a year away from being dead do you think you should be in charge of driving up the debt for the United States for the next 100 years and you're going to be dead in a year and you're in charge of deciding what th

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e rest of us will do for the next hundred years? Now I saw some push back on that because I said it on X and the push back was but Scott all of these ancient people they've got kids they've got grandkids of course they care about them so they care about the future as much as anybody does. To which I replied have you met people? Let me explain something about people. They really do make selfish dec…

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