Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68

[Wiz Imp]

35. When Adams started Dilbert, it was a decent strip that found humor in office life

However, as time went on, Adams decided that instead of the person to be most mocked, that the pointy haired boss was actually the hero of this world. Great analysis here:
https://www.theawl.com/2017/12/dilbert-a-reckoning/
or a brief overview here:
https://www.avclub.com/the-hero-of-dilbert-is-now-dilberts-boss-1821258521

But Adams proved himself to be a horrible person (racist, miogynist, anti-semite, etc) at least 20 years ago.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/scott-adams-dead-at-68-00724995

He attracted attention for controversial comments, including saying in 2011 that women are treated differently by society for the same reason as children and the mentally disabled — “it’s just easier this way for everyone.” In a blog post from 2006, he questioned the death toll of the Holocaust.

In June 2020, Adams tweeted that when the “Dilbert” TV show ended in 2000 after just two seasons, it was “the third job I lost for being white.” But, at the time, he blamed it on lower viewership and time slot changes.

Adams’ beliefs began bleeding into his strips. In one in 2022, a boss says that traditional performance reviews would be replaced by a “wokeness” score. When an employee complains that could be subjective, the boss said, “That’ll cost you two points off your wokeness score, bigot.”

Adams put a brave face on his fall from grace, tweeting in 2023: “Only the dying leftist Fake News industry canceled me (for out-of-context news of course). Social media and banking unaffected. Personal life improved. Never been more popular in my life. Zero pushback in person. Black and White conservatives solidly supporting me.”

He really was an awful human being.