Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Talebis a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionScientist
CountryLebanon
thinking employment slavery
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
children
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
risks
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.