In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb was a contemporary American american author. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York Polytech professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power