Nassim Nicholas Taleb

True equality is equality in probability

The way to make society more equal is by forcing (through skin in the game) the rich to be subjected to the risk of exiting from the 1 percent.

when you buy a thick book with tons of graphs and tables used to prove a point, you should be suspicious. It means something didn’t distill right! But for the general public and those untrained in statistics, such tables appear convincing—another way to substitute the true with the complicated.

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.