Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
Nassim Nicholas TalebI want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
Nassim Nicholas TalebAs countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb