I really want to be Nassim Taleb, I don't want to get a real job, I don't want to be a slave for any kind of rules or laws whether in corporates, government or academia, I am much bigger than that, I just want to make enough money trading and shorting stocks during an economic bubble and retire young and then set myself emperor of the world and make fun of whoever I don't like such those academics who can't make 6 figure until in their 50s, of course academics are much less smarter than a stock trader, otherwise why couldn't they become rich like Taleb? right?!
Well, you're being sarcastic, but he does have a point in all that.
The proof of the pudding being in the eating, and all that.
There's something to be said for respecting somebody who betted on something he called and won (especially if they did it repeatedly), especially when most others were all against the very possibility of them being right...
And being free with fuck you money does give you some freedom to say truths (even if they're just your personal truths) employees can't.
even though I am kinda sarcastic I extremely admire this kind of thinking (assuming that I got him right), many stock traders have this kind of free thinking mentality and disdain for all kinds of rules and authority, George Soros once said that the only reason people read about his philosophy is that he made a few billions, he knew from the very beginning that having enough money would make his ideas worth of being considered for smart people and absolutely right for retarded people. It's like money shifts the truth or something!
