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#1

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: addiction, carbohydrates, diabesity, dr-hyman, dr-robert-lustig, labor, laboring-class, sugar, sugar-addiction, sugar-the-bitter-truth, wage, wage-slavery

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#2

“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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#3

“the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or “incentives” for skill.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#4

“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: internet-addiction, modern-life, modern-society, modernity, modernity-is-a-sickness, slavery, technology-addiction, technology-enchantment

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