True intellect should not appear to be intellectual. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.