You can tell people who come from countries w/rent seeking; they think that business is zero-sum: wealth is money taken from others. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.*4

The only definition of rationality that I’ve found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is the following: what is rational is that which allows for survival. Unlike modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classical way of thinking. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.

Some things are forever, some things are not
It's the things we remember that gave the world shock"