I'm wary this might end up aggravating the subset of Taleb adherents on here but from what I've seen of him (segments of some of his books, tweets, essays) he c

I'm wary this might end up aggravating the subset of Taleb adherents on here but from what I've seen of him (segments of some of his books, tweets, essays) he cultivates a pretty brazenly idealistic / ideological (as opposed to materialistic) worldview that he repackages in academic language in order to bolster his authority. To be clear this is not to imply that he isn't in control of his subject matter. Just that to say Ray Dalio is "mistaken" about his largely philosophical/ideological claims about capitalism fits into a pattern I observe from Taleb where he uses a deep and nuanced understanding of the status quo as a weapon to beat down normative arguments that the status quo should be changed. It's very similar to how Sam Harris uses his specialist authority to deliver regressive social critiques that he wraps in academic language. We need to remember that expertise on a subject is a tool, but how you use that tool is always guided by ideologies. I challenge people to think critically about what those like Harris and Taleb's morality and ideological positions are.