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Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Former trader and essayist
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 22

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