If we are (almost) the only animal with a sense of justice, it is because we also are (almost) the only animal with a sense of cruelty. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

"There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd." - Taleb

Some people are so foolish that they only get answers right when they misunderstand the question.