Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient.” - The difference bet… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

you have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.

Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more "efficient."

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

The only way you can "convince" rentseekers [bankers/academicobureaucrats] is showing them that it is in their own INTERESTS to change their mind. When against their interests, make it painful for them by 1) convincing OTHERS, 2) continuously exposing, 3) humiliating them

A trader's mental construction should direct him to do precisely what other people do not do.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.