LOCALISM,1 Governments come & go, bureaucrats stay. Min… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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LOCALISM,1 Governments come & go, bureaucrats stay. Ministries & agencies aren't run by ministers & transitory figureheads, but by a "deep local microstate" of civil servants who have been there for decades & "own" the inside. Worse: EPA was run by Monsanto, FAA by Boeing.

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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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