{"id":6400,"date":"2013-12-04T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2013-12-04T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:35:53","slug":"the-12-meanest-things-nassim-taleb-has-said-about-economists-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-12-meanest-things-nassim-taleb-has-said-about-economists-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Meanest Things Nassim Taleb Has Said About Economists &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An economist is a mixture of 1 a businessman without common sense, 2 a physicist without brain, and 3 a speculator without balls.<\/li>\n<li>A prostitute who sells her body temporarily is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure.<\/li>\n<li>The artificial gives us hangovers, the natural inverse-hangovers. The joys of post-exercise, breaking a fast, meeting a friend, helping someone in trouble, or humiliating an economist are examples of inverse hangovers. Antifragility = series of earned inverse hangovers. They don&#8217;t come for free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nassim-taleb-on-economists-2013-12\">Nassim Taleb On Economists &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An economist is a mixture of 1 a businessman without common sense, 2 a physicist without brain, and 3 a speculator without balls. A prostitute who sells her body temporarily is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure. The artificial gives us hangovers, the natural inverse-hangovers. The joys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}