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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @11:27PM (#10855978)
"True contrarian" is just a politer name for troll, though. If you say unpopular things solely because they're unpopular, we have a word for that.
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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by drumdance on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:56PM (#10861818)
I don't think he does them just to be unpopular. He's just conducting thought experiments. He does like to tease his audience but so does Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution.
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Re:Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) by PhasmaFelis on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:39PM (#10868503)
If he's not trying to piss people off, he sure does gloat a lot about how much he loves pissing people off.
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