The Dilbert future

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…anet Jackson showing her breasts on television, but politicians around the country reacted with outrage. Fortunately this trend will be short lived. In Scott Adams' book The Dilbert Future there is an anecdote about why all politicians seem to be crooks. The possible reasons he gives are 1. Crooks are the only ones who run for office 2. Politics turns people into criminals 3. All politicians are being framed 4. Every person on Earth is a crook, but only the only people we check out carefully are politicians There is no reason to believe the first three are correct, so probably the best explanation for this phenomenon is reason four. Now clearly not everyone is really a crook, but it is true that we have all done both good and bad. The problem is that a scatter shot of everything that each person in the translucent generation has ever done…

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