Draft - Soros: 'World economic history is a scam' vs Taleb: 'Lies are fragile'

Antifragile

Does evil have to be fragile and unable to last?

You need to provide information to expose lies, and spreading information has a cost. How many people know about a few merchants' shady histories? (These merchants' shady histories are unrelated to most people's interests).

Taleb says in Antifragile that "the more you suppress the spread of some information, the more you help it spread," but this sentence does not necessarily hold true every time. Some suppressions are very successful, for example another person jumped from a school again.

There is so much information now that if something is not special, it will quickly be pushed down by other information.

Some lies, even when exposed, cannot cause great harm to the author; some things just directly tell you, "What the hell can you do to me?"

As long as a scam (lie) can outlast the life of its author and the lifespan of the author's descendants, that scam is considered successful; it doesn't matter if it's exposed later.

If a lie is clever enough that most people cannot quickly see through it, and the damage caused by the lie is not large enough to overcome "human forgetfulness,"

This article can serve as Draft - Cliché column - balance an example of

Cleverness and stupidity are relative; there will always be clever people and always foolish people, therefore there will always be scams.

In theory, business should be honest, so that there will be more and more trade. But in the renovation industry, deception has become so common that the job of "renovation supervisor" has emerged. Renovation is mostly a one-time business: cheat one customer and run.

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