Scott Adams

And it's interesting that this structure manifested pretty much early on in the experiment.

But it got worse.

As this situation developed, you started seeing...

more and more of the population become more fixated on the tribalism that took place in the town square and taking care of the beautiful ones the rich ones the ones that had everything that knew everything there's less reproduction

There was less care for each other in a sense that there was less grooming.

There was even less eating of the food.

Some animals, some of the mice were starting to starve, even though there was an abundant amount of food.

And I'll shorten the story to the end point.

The end point was the entire colony collapsed.

They stopped reproducing entirely.

The beautiful ones dominated to the point where they got so obese and so unable to actually go out and get water and things of that nature, they died and the entire colony ended.

None of them made it.

Pritzker, I heard you.

So basically, we're at the end point of an experiment.

In that particular epoch in the late 1960s, there was a lot of interest in zero population growth, Malthusian things like that.

The Great Population Bomb book was very popular.

It still is.

It still is.

Unfortunately, there are people that are in positions of power that I've met.

And I can tell you, they absolutely believe that.