Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.
I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.