Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 1443 Scott Adams: Violent Protest Investigation, China is Not Safe For Business
Aired: 2021-07-21
Duration: 08:43


=== Last Year's Protests (04:07) ===

[00:00:03]  Hey everybody, it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
[00:00:08]  Sometimes the best part of your day, and sometimes the best part of every day.
[00:00:14]  And sometimes it's just the best thing ever.
[00:00:17]  It's hard to decide which it is today, but it's one of those things for sure.
[00:00:21]  And all you need to guarantee the high quality of the day is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or a gel, a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.
[00:00:33]  Fill it with your favorite liquid.
[00:00:34]  I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except China.
[00:00:43]  It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
[00:00:49]  That one was extra slurpy.
[00:00:52]  I think you enjoyed it.
[00:00:56]  All right, well, the Rasmussen people have a new poll out.
[00:01:02]  Very interesting.
[00:01:04]  Very interesting. They say that 66%, so two-thirds of likely U.S. voters, think Congress should investigate last year's violent protests.
[00:01:16]  You know which ones I'm talking about?
[00:01:18]  I'm talking about the, you know, last year there were the BLM and Antifa, mostly, in which more than 2,000 police officers suffered injuries.
[00:01:28]  Did you know it was that high?
[00:01:32]  2,000 police officers were injured?
[00:01:37]  Why is that the first time I've ever seen that statistic?
[00:01:42]  2,000?
[00:01:45]  That's crazy. 21% don't think Congress should investigate.
[00:01:52]  And the number of people who want Congress to investigate last year's violent protests, at 66%, is much higher than the 49% who say they want to support Nancy Pelosi's looking into the January 6th Capitol protests.
[00:02:10]  Let's call those a riot.
[00:02:12]  Um... And 42% say they don't support looking into January 6th.
[00:02:19]  So, here's a question for you.
[00:02:23]  All those riots last year, did all of their complaints get fixed?
[00:02:32]  Is that why?
[00:02:36]  By the way, for those of you on YouTube, there's a little sign in the back.
[00:02:41]  That might be useful to you.
[00:02:43]  It says, Jesus King is.
[00:02:45]  The audio is fine.
[00:02:48]  Yes, Jesus King is.
[00:02:50]  The audio is fine.
[00:02:55]  So, that's interesting, because it seems to me that whatever was driving the protest last year could not have been legitimate.
[00:03:02]  Is there anybody who would disagree with that statement?
[00:03:04]  That whatever was behind the protest last year, it couldn't have been legitimate...
[00:03:12]  Because no problems were solved.
[00:03:14]  Am I right? No problems were solved.
[00:03:18]  So the same amount of problem, but no protests.
[00:03:24]  Interesting. Interesting.
[00:03:27]  Well, I would say I would want to look into that.
[00:03:29]  If 2,000 police officers were injured in...
[00:03:34]  In events that are suspicious and maybe organized.
[00:03:38]  And maybe organized in ways we don't understand.
[00:03:41]  Obviously they were organized. Well, in other news, the Milwaukee Bucks are the NBA champions for the first time in 50 years.
[00:03:51]  Two surprising things about that.
[00:03:56]  Number one.
[00:03:59]  Two surprising things.
[00:04:01]  Number one. Hello, YouTube.
[00:04:05]  Let's see if this works.
[00:04:06]  We had a little technical difficulty before.
[00:04:08]  I'm just going to do one topic on this one.

=== Risk in Business (04:32) ===

[00:04:11]  It's about China.
[00:04:13]  And it's based on an unscientific poll that was done by a China file.
[00:04:18]  And they talked to 121 people who were China-connected.
[00:04:22]  There were scholars and journalists and former diplomats, etc.
[00:04:26]  And they asked them if they were likely to visit China after the pandemic restrictions are off.
[00:04:33]  And 40% of them said they probably or definitely would not.
[00:04:37]  And some of them were concerned about the safety, being jailed on trumped-up charges.
[00:04:45]  Some of them were afraid of who knows what.
[00:04:49]  But I would say that the best way to take down China is by the following sentence.
[00:04:56]  China is not safe for business.
[00:05:00]  Because risk is different in each domain.
[00:05:02]  In the military, risk means something very different, and you might want to take a big risk in the military if there's a big reward, or you just have to.
[00:05:10]  In your personal life, you might take risks with your hobbies and your extreme sports and stuff, and that's common.
[00:05:18]  People do that in their personal life.
[00:05:20]  But in the domain of business...
[00:05:22]  People don't like risk.
[00:05:24]  Because if you take a risk in business, and it's a risk everybody knows is a risk, it's a well-known risk, and it doesn't go well...
[00:05:33]  What happens? You get fired.
[00:05:35]  Or you look like an idiot.
[00:05:37]  So once it becomes known, or just a standard business phrase, that China is not safe for business in a variety of ways, then that should pretty much put China in a business.
[00:05:49]  It'll take a while. But once other countries realize that the risk of IP theft, the risk of imprisonment, the risk of them spying, the risk of them getting access to your communications...
[00:06:02]  It's just not worth doing business in China because these risks are so well known.
[00:06:07]  If you take a risk that's not known and it doesn't work out, well, you know, nobody's going to fire you for that.
[00:06:15]  You took a risk, it didn't work out, nobody knew.
[00:06:18]  But if you know that working in China is not safe and it doesn't work out, you get fired.
[00:06:29]  This used to be the case with using IBM equipment.
[00:06:33]  Back a million years ago when I worked in the corporate world, it would be said that if you bought hardware from IBM, you'd never get fired.
[00:06:43]  Because it either works or IBM comes in and makes it work.
[00:06:47]  But it's always going to work.
[00:06:49]  So you're not going to get fired because it didn't work.
[00:06:51]  IBM will take care of that.
[00:06:53]  Their competition? Well, the competition might give you a better price, but you don't know for sure it's going to work because they're not IBM. That was the thinking back then.
[00:07:04]  Now things probably have changed.
[00:07:05]  But once that becomes a thing...
[00:07:10]  Once it becomes known that something has a risk to it, it's really chilling in the business world.
[00:07:17]  And China has gone way beyond the point where you could say that it's safe.
[00:07:29]  So that's the point.
[00:07:31]  I would just like to say one other thing to the people complaining about the audio.
[00:07:37]  Just remember... Jesus King is.
[00:07:41]  The audio is fine, even when it's not.
[00:07:44]  Because sometimes it's not, but I also don't care then.
[00:07:48]  So there's your tip for taking down China, and I wanted to test to see if the reason I had technical difficulties before was because of the content or because of the technology.
[00:08:01]  So this will be a test of that.
[00:08:03]  So that's how to destroy China.
[00:08:06]  Just make it a well-known fact that China is not safe for business, which is completely true.
[00:08:12]  Completely true. So you don't have to lie about anything.
[00:08:15]  And there you are. There's your kill shot for China.
[00:08:18]  And China, if you're listening, and I think you might be, you really shouldn't have killed my stepson with fentanyl.
[00:08:27]  You fucked up there.
[00:08:29]  Because I'm coming for you.
[00:08:32]  And if you don't get me first, I'm going to take down your whole fucking country.
[00:08:36]  So China is not safe for business.
[00:08:39]  And that is something you're going to see a lot more of in the next month.