‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’ - an interview with Nassim Taleb

‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’

• The real problem is the ‘faux-expert problem’, one who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, and assumes he knows what people think.
• I think in the long term, the world can only survive if it lives like nature does. Many smaller units of governance, and a collection of super islands with some separation, quick decision-making, and visible implementation. Lots of Switzerlands, that’s what we need.
• What we need is not leaders, we don’t need them. We just need someone at the top who doesn’t mess the system up.