Stefan Molyneux

Thank you for the invitation.

It's great to be here.

Yes, I would be happy to, and it's funny because I got a little blurry eye just seeing him again.

And so, yes, I'd be very happy to unpack my heart in tribute of Scott.

I actually became aware of him...

When I was in graduate school, of course Dilbert was in the papers and I was an avid reader of, I don't know, I guess we can call them newspapers for those who are under 40, you'll have to ask your parents what they were, but they were great for lining bird cages the next day and getting the propaganda delivered on ink straight to your eyeballs.

So I'd read Dilbert and find him very amusing, of course.

And then after graduate school, I got into the business world and very quickly became a pointy-haired manager.

I actually became a chief technical officer at a software company that I co-founded.

And I remember some of my employees would occasionally read Dilbert in this homostat-subversive way, like they were reading Solzhenitsyn under Stalin or something like that.

And I pointed out that I actually had a Dilbert calendar in my office.

I had Dilbert pictures on the wall and that actually got me a great degree of credibility as a manager.

Like I was on their side.

I was one of them.

And of course I rose up through the programming ranks.

And I actually at one point was going to grow my hair out a little and toughed it up because I was still dark back then.

And I found that Scott's,

takedown of corporate fluff and language was a beautiful and philosophical thing.

I always found it to be deeply philosophical.

Like a lot of absurdist thinkers, and Scott very much pointed out the absurdity of office life, the pomposity, the verbiage, the catchphrases, the fear of HR,