Nassim Taleb sobre dívida e 'skin in the game'

Nassim Taleb aprovaria a iniciativa do partido NOVO de elevar o skin in the game na política brasileira vedando o profissionalismo político.

“I have an allergy to borrowing and a scorn for people who are in debt, and I don’t hide it. I follow the Romans’ attitude that debtors are not free people.”

“A bullshitter is not someone who’s wrong, it’s someone who’s insulated from their mistakes.”

“Ninety-eight percent of Americans—plumbers, dentists, bus drivers—have skin in the game. We have to worry about the 2 percent—the intellectuals and politicians making the big decisions who don’t have skin in the game and are messing the whole thing up for everybody else. Thirty years ago, the French National Assembly was composed of shop owners, farmers, doctors, veterinarians, and small-town lawyers—people involved in daily activities. Today, it’s entirely composed of professional politicians—people who are just divorced from real life. America is a little better, but we’re heading that way.“

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