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The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

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I have never had personal debt and never will.

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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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