I do not dispute that arguments should be simplified to their maximum... but people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a medi… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

I noticed that very intelligent and informed persons were at no advantage over cabdrivers in their predictions, but there was a crucial difference. Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people - really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite.

For soldiers, we use the term "mercenary," but we absolve employees of responsibility with "everybody needs to make a living."