Everything Is Bullshit Quotes

“In 2011, during a debate over the nutritional guidelines for school lunches, Congress decided that pizza counted as a vegetable. And not for the first time.”
― Alex Mayyasi, Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed

“If you see something out there that is bullshit, you can replace it with something that is not.”
― Priceonomics, Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed

“why rich people like wine so much: “It’s the most consistently reliable way that they can convert money into happiness.”
― Priceonomics, Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed

“Those that benefit from the taxi medallion system have been protected for 80 years. In that time, they abused taxi drivers and produced a crappy product. Ride-sharing apps should be allowed to take over the market — until they too are disrupted by self-driving cars. And so it goes.”
― Priceonomics, Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed

“But there’s a cheaper way to enjoy the con, and that is to take advantage of all the other factors that “trick” us into enjoying wine more. Like Troy Carter, you can ride to Napa and walk the vineyards before you buy a bottle. If you don’t live near wine country, you can talk to the manager of a wine store about the wines she loves. A nice pair of wine glasses, candles, and a picnic in a beautiful park all lend wine a refined air. All these strategies take advantage of the psychological biases that lead us to enjoy the same wine more than we would in other circumstances. And they do so without the rarefied price tag.”
― Priceonomics, Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed