ClaimsNassim Taleb

“We end up in the strange situation of xenophobic people importing labor for their own purposes while voting against immigration — a sort of tragedy of the commons.”

Nassim Taleb 24 September 2025 Black Swan author Nassim Taleb says your city's new bike lane is the reason the economy sucks (Fortune) archived copy

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We end up in the strange situation of xenophobic people importing labor for their own purposes while voting against immigration — a sort of…

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Nassim Taleb, “We end up in the strange situation of xenophobic people importing labor for their own purposes while voting against immigration — a sort of…” (said 24 September 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_77f031bfeb5d, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_77f031bfeb5d

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