Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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