Something shoddy: citizenship of convenience, holding the passport of a country for ease of travel/tax without committing to its community. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The antifragility of the higher level may require the fragility—and sacrifice—of the lower one.

The ones who refer to you repeatedly as "my friend" are most likely to betray you.

Many amateurs believe that plants and animals reproduce on a one-way route toward perfection. Translating the idea in social terms, they believe that companies and organizations are, thanks to competition (and the discipline of the quarterly report), irreversibly heading toward betterment. The strongest will survive; the weakest will become extinct. As to investors and traders, they believe that by letting them compete, the best will prosper and the worst will go learn a new craft (like pumping gas or, sometimes, dentistry). Things are not as simple as that. We will ignore the basic misuse of Darwinian ideas in the fact that organizations do not reproduce like living members of nature — Darwinian ideas are about reproductive fitness, not about survival.