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" ... Currency traders are hardly a sympathetic lot, none less so than the hubristic group caught fixing the foreign exchange market. One member of “The Mafia,” a moniker proudly assumed by a coterie of dealers, even boasted that “If you aint cheating you aint trying [sic],” according to records of internet chat rooms used by participants to avoid detection by internal dealing systems. ... "
" ... However, when we behave in a narcissistic manner, and see ourselves as superior with exaggerated self-belief and overwhelming contempt for others, we are following a hubristic path. Our over-confidence often leads to disaster, as we become incompetent due to arrogance and self-delusion. ... "
" ... I still remember the first time I went to Taco Bell. I was probably 5 years old, arm in a cast from a hubristic encounter with a towering jungle gym. It was dark out when we pulled up to the drive-thru, where there were neon ads for Star Wars toys out the car window. I can picture the hazy light-pollution glow of the menu that night. I know I ordered a Mexican pizza—it was my go-to order for years afterward. That crunchy-soggy-salty mess of a food was pure joy. The last time I had one—during an interminable bus ride to Boston for Thanksgiving in 2019—the one bright spot in the day was that shock of edible nostalgia. ... "
" ... Mark Zuckerberg is not alone in falling prey to the perfect storm of corporate myopia. One could argue that Travis Kalanick at Uber and Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos also had hubristic visions to change the world for the better, coupled with overconfidence in the infallibility of their technology and an inability to recognize black swan risks threatening to damage their company and the world at large. Kalanick was ultimately forced to resign from Uber by his board, and Holmes recently settled a lawsuit with the SEC that forced her to forfeit control of Theranos, now in tatters. ... "
" ... This is essentially the Platonic philosopher king conceit: the hubristic notion that there is a small group of wise elites that is capable of directing the economic actions of a country, no matter how educated or successful the populace has been on its own. And never mind that the world has multiple clear examples of how central controls eventually slow growth and make things worse over time. It is only when free people are allowed to set their own prices as both buyers and sellers of goods and services and, yes, even interest rates and the price of money, that valid market-clearing prices can be determined. Trying to control those prices results in one group being favored over another. ... "