Scott Adams net worth: 'Dilbert' creator who was canceled for racist rant against Black people denies he 'lost all his money'
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams, who recently landed in a controversy over calling Black people a "hate group", claims he has not lost all his money through making the statement. After his tirade, media groups such as Gannett decided to cancel the cartoon in their newspapers.
Gannett has more than a hundred newspapers under its company. His creation was also stopped in publications such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, etc. In the recent episode of 'Real Coffee with Scott Adams,' he can be seen saying, "How does it feel to lose all your money?" However, he adds that his finances will not be affected profoundly by this cancellation.
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What is Scott Adams' net worth?
Adams has a total net worth of $75 million, as per The Richest. He made all the wealth by creating the comic strip 'Dilbert. He's also had success as an author of non-'Dilbert'-related works, including a novel called 'The Religion War.' Adams was also the CEO of Scott Adams Food, Inc., which specializes in vegetarian dishes. The other books written by him include, 'The Dilbert Principle,' 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,' and 'Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter.' Scott was also co-owner of Stacey's Café located in Pleasanton, which was shut down in the later years. Another business he owned includes 'The Dilbert Zone.' Here, Adams designed and developed a unique line of coffee mugs, cell phone covers, baseball caps, boxers, and mouse pads featuring a fictional character named Dilbert, as per The Money.
What did he say in the controversial video?
Adams can be seen saying in the video, "The best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f**k away. Wherever you have to go, just get away." He added, "There’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed... You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population." Adams also said, "It turns out that nearly half of that team doesn't think I'm okay to be White. I'm going to back off from being helpful to Black America because it doesn't seem like it pays off," he said, adding, "I get called a racist. That's the only outcome. It makes no sense to help Black Americans if you're white. It's over. Don't even think it's worth trying."
Meanwhile, in September 2022, 'Dilbert' was taken out of another publisher namely, Lee Enterprises. The media company owns nearly 100 newspapers across the country, including The Buffalo News, St Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Arizona Daily Sun. This was due to his portrayal of a Black character who identifies as White. The cartoon also showed the worker being asked to also identify as gay to boost his company's environmental, social, and governance ratings.