Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote
Even political systems follow a form of rational tinkering, when people are rational hence take the better option: the Romans got their political system by tinkering, not by reason. Polybius in his Histories compares the Greek legislator Lycurgus, who constructed his political system while untaught by adversity, to the more experiential Romans, who, a few centuries later, have not reached it by any process of reasoning [emphasis mine], but by the discipline of many struggles and troubles, and always choosing the best by the light of the experience gained in disaster.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even political systems follow a form of rational tinkering, when people are rational hence take the better option: the Romans got their political system by tinkering, not by reason. Polybius in his Histories compares the Greek legislator Lycurgus, who constructed his political system while untaught by adversity, to the more experiential Romans, who, a few centuries later, have not reached it by any process of reasoning [emphasis mine], but by the discipline of many struggles and troubles, and always choosing the best by the light of the experience gained in disaster.
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