Nice to the Waiter/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|... if you believe that you are “helping the poor” by spending money on powerpoint presentations and international meetings, the type of meetings that lead to more meetings (and powerpoint presentations) you can completely ignore the individuals –the poor is some abstract reified construct that you do not encounter in your real life. Your efforts in conferences gives you a license to humiliate them in person. Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison, more commonly known as

[[Hillary Clinton]], found it permissible to heap abuse at secret service agents.[i] I was recently told that a famous socialist environmentalist who was part of the same lecture series abused waiters in restaurants, between lectures on equity and fairness.

[…]

Hence the principle:

''If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life''

and

''If your private actions do not generalize then you cannot have general ideas''

|'''Nassim Nicholas Taleb''', ''The Merchandising of Virtue'' ([https://medium.com/incerto/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b548762658f0 Excerpts from ''Skin in the Game'']) }}