One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need i… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thirty-nine percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution, 56 percent will find themselves in the top 10 percent, and 73 percent will spend a year in the top 20 percent.

"When you define yourself as "localist", nobody frames you in the "partisan" box; both the "left" & the "right" take you for one of them. The only people in favor of centralization are lobbyists, bureaucrats, & DC parasites. Yet the world is centralizing." - Taleb

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.