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The characteristic feature of the market economy is the fact that it allots the greater part of the improvements brought about by the endeavors of the three progressive classes—those saving, those investing the capital goods, and those ...more
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“As the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 demonstrates, mass murder and routine had become one. Normality itself had become exceedingly abnormal.”
Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ludwig von Mises
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

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