Scott Adams: In his own words
Topics: I fund my Periscopes and podcasts via audience micro-donations on Patreon [no longer active]. I prefer this method over accepting advertisements or working for a “boss” somewhere because it keeps my voice independent. No one owns me, and that is rare. I’m trying in my own way to make the…
Read MoreTopics: I fund my Periscopes and podcasts via audience micro-donations on Patreon [no longer active]. I prefer this method over accepting advertisements or working for a “boss” somewhere because it keeps my voice independent. No one owns me, and that is rare. I’m trying in my own way to make the…
Read MoreTopics: I fund my Periscopes and podcasts via audience micro-donations on Patreon [no longer active]. I prefer this method over accepting advertisements or working for a “boss” somewhere because it keeps my voice independent. No one owns me, and that is rare. I’m trying in my own way to make the…
Read MoreLately I have been describing my personal political views as “left of Bernie, but with a preference for plans that can work.” In other words, I would love universal healthcare and free college. I just don’t know how to get there in any practical way. I don’t think anyone else does…
Read MorePrior to President Trump’s inauguration, I predicted a coming story arc in three acts. Act one involved mass protests in the streets because Hillary Clinton’s campaign had successfully branded Trump as the next Hitler. Sure enough, we saw mass protests by anti-Trumpers who legitimately and honestly believed the country had…
Read MoreCongress just proved something that we all suspected: They are the wrong tool for fixing health care. The topic is too complicated, the politics are too corrosive, and the money interests are too strong. That’s why citizens will step in and fill the gap with their own proposals. I expect…
Read MoreOur system of government has been amazingly robust for hundreds of years, but it fails when you have these two conditions: 1. An issue is too complicated for the public to understand. 2. Big companies are willing to distort the system for profits. That situation describes the healthcare debate going…
Read MoreYears ago I coined the term Confusopoly [archive] to describe any industry that benefits by keeping consumers confused. For example, mobile phone carriers know their offerings are too confusing for consumers to compare one company to another on cost. That is clearly intentional. If consumers could compare offerings it would drive profit…
Read MoreWas President Trump’s first attempt at getting a healthcare bill a failure? Your answer to that question probably depends on whether you are a goals-thinker or a systems-thinker. If you see the world in terms of goals, you would say the healthcare bill did not get enough votes on the first try, and therefore…
Read MoreI don’t know much about Congress, and all its arcane rules, but I think the process for creating a healthcare bill goes something like this: With our current system (a Republic), that’s as good as we can do in 2017. The politicians need money to stay in office, and this…
Read More[Update: fixed bad email address in step 3.] Most of the remaining problems in the world are information problems in disguise. For example, our politicians in the United States are trying to figure out how to provide health insurance to low-income people without breaking the budget. It looks impossible, at…
Read MoreMost of you would agree that our democratic system (a republic) is flawed in many ways, and yet it is still better than all the known alternatives. So I thought I would come up with a better alternative. Keep in mind that the Constitution of the United States was written…
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