Professor Taleb: Donald Trump Is Smarter Than Journalists Making Minimum Wage

Professor Taleb suggests that being on the Forbes 400 probably makes you smarter than the typical journalist.

1) When a collection of journos getting around minimum wage call someone consistently successful "an idiot", one is entitled to invoke Wittgenstein's ruler:
you don't just use a ruler to measure the table, but the table to measure the ruler.
(in Fooled by Randomness) pic.twitter.com/vhEqJJsJZK

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) January 6, 2018