In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporationโs funeral at our expense.
Nassim Nicholas TalebIt was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
Nassim Nicholas TalebThere is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb