Someone once called me franchising’s black swan.
What does Nassim Nicholas Taleb define as a “sucker”:
The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
Suckers think you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers. economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending.
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. What they call “risk” I call opportunity; but what they call “low risk” opportunity I call a sucker problem.
I have no pecuniary interest in these schmozzles, only a few friends and their staff that I care about.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.