I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
Ray DalioWhen people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray DalioWe wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.
Ray DalioOver time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had to agree on how we should be with each other - and that way is unique. Because the logic behind being radically honest and radically transparent with each other wasn't clear, it had to be spelled out in these principles.
Ray Dalio