terça-feira, setembro 17, 2013

Skin in the game

"Incentivo de 1% pode gerar 110 mil novos postos de trabalho"
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Já sei, o título é uma treta.
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Quanto ao conteúdo, esta nova taxa, mais um peso às costas das empresas, faz-me recordar o tema de Taleb, "skin in the game":
"Under opacity and in the newfound complexity of the world, people can hide risks and hurt others, with the law incapable of catching them. Iatrogenics has both delayed and invisible consequences. It is hard to see causal links, to fully understand what’s going on. Under such epistemic limitations, skin in the game is the only true mitigator of fragility. Hammurabi’s code provided a simple solution—close to thirty-seven hundred years ago. This solution has been increasingly abandoned in modern times, as we have developed a fondness for neomanic complication over archaic simplicity. We need to understand the everlasting solidity of such a solution.
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The worst problem of modernity lies in the malignant transfer of fragility and antifragility from one party to the other, with one getting the benefits, the other one (unwittingly) getting the harm, with such transfer facilitated by the growing wedge between the ethical and the legal. This state of affairs has existed before, but is acute today—modernity hides it especially well.
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in Arabic it is called Shhm—best translated as nonsmall. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don’t risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can’t feel insulted by a dog.
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I want predictors to have visible scars on their body from prediction errors, not distribute these errors to society."
É um risco trabalhar para uma empresa? Por que distribuir esse risco sobre os outros?

Trechos retirados de "Antifragility" de Nassim Taleb

1 comentário:

CCz disse...

"we need to put entrepreneurs and risk takers, “failed” or not, on top of the pyramid, and, unless they take personal risks when they expose others, academizing academics, talkers, and political politicians at the bottom. The problem is that society is currently doing the exact opposite, granting mere talkers a free option."