awareness of a problem does not mean much — particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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awareness of a problem does not mean much — particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

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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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Some people do not know their own interest — just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.
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