Every obedient, housebroken dog I know seems very happy.
Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”
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#12Is being housebroken a bad thing? I don't want to live in my own filth.
The alternative to being housebroken is not to live in your own filth, it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains. To take the dog comparison a bit further, the alternative to that housebroken dog is a free wolf.
Re: Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”
#13Is being housebroken a bad thing? I don't want to live in my own filth.
The alternative to being housebroken is not to live in your own filth, it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains. To take the dog comparison a bit further, the alternative to that housebroken dog is a free wolf.
> "it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains"
Except that wolves are pack animals who work for the good of their pack, which isn't freedom. Solitary wolves exist but it's because they're trying to create their own pack.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The alternative to being housebroken is not to live in your own filth, it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains. To take the dog comparison a bit further, the alternative to that housebroken dog is a free wolf.
> " it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains " Except that wolves are pack animals who work for the good of their pack, which isn't freedom. Solitary wolves exist but it's because they're trying to create their own pack.
> wolves are pack animals who work for the good of their pack
Nope, they are pack animals which work for their own good in a strictly hierarchical pack, always trying to find opportunities to rise in status. Seen in human terms wolves are conservatives, not liberals or libertarians.
Re: Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”
#15Nassim Nicholas Taleb may be right about some things some of the time. He's also egotistical, arrogrant and painful to read/listen to. Plus this article is on Linked in, another self-serving entity.
The answer (as usual) is 'it depends'.
The trend for employers is that they want unreasonable loyalty and/or employees as interchangable parts and the power to rearrange them at a whim.
Not all employers are like this, although many of them are.
I have to wonder whether posting of this 3 year old article is just an attempt at exploiting the long tail of his book sales?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> " it is to live in freedom without fetters and chains " Except that wolves are pack animals who work for the good of their pack, which isn't freedom. Solitary wolves exist but it's because they're trying to create their own pack.
> wolves are pack animals who work for the good of their pack Nope, they are pack animals which work for their own good in a strictly hierarchical pack, always trying to find opportunities to rise in status. Seen in human terms wolves are conservatives, not liberals or libertarians.
> "a strictly hierarchical pack"
IIRC that was debunked a while ago by new research, e.g. https://www.quora.com/What-paper-is-the-one-that-disproved-t...