When a young woman partners with an otherwise uninteresting rich man, she can sincerely believe that she is attracted to some very specific body part… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Scale matters: small/medium is beautiful, more stable & genuinely more efficient long term. Large becomes top-down.

Recall the confirmation fallacy: governments are great at telling you what they did, but not what they did not do. In fact, they engage in what could be labeled as phony “philanthropy,” the activity of helping people in a visible and sensational way without taking into account the unseen cemetery of invisible consequences. Bastiat inspired libertarians by attacking the usual arguments that showed the benefits of governments. But his ideas can be generalized to apply to both the Right and the Left.

A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys “with increased statistical confidence.