Quotes About Accountability

Things designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse).

I know very few people who, when they say they want to do something, end up doing it.

a system that doesn't have a mechanism of skin in the game, with a buildup of imbalances, will eventually blow up and self-repair that way. If it survives.

It is not your skills that are to blame.

Given that it was not predictable, you are not to blame.

skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.

shame-free policy is maximal transparency, even transparency of intentions.

politicians whose interests are not lined up with those of the people they represent.

We are witnessing the rise of a new class of inverse heroes, that is, bureaucrats, bankers, Davos-attending members of the I.A.N.D. (International Association of Name Droppers), and academics with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability.

In general, skin in the game comes with conflict of interest.

A doctor is pushed by the system to transfer risk from himself to you

As the great game theorist Ariel Rubinstein holds: do your theories or mathematical representations, don't tell people in the real world how to apply them. Let those with skin in the game select what they need.

a system that doesn't have a mechanism of skin in the game, with a buildup of imbalances, will eventually blow up and self-repair that way.

It is not just bailouts: government interference in general tends to remove skin in the game.

It is downright unethical to use public office for enrichment.

They are left alone to do as they please, provided of course that their results satisfy the executives.

Puede que no sea algo exigible desde el punto de vista ético, pero la política más eficaz y más libre de vergüenza es la transparencia máxima, la cual incluye la transparencia de intenciones.

Which brings us to what is known as the agency problem.

how professionals can cause harm for such a long time in the name of knowledge and get away with it.

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires—they are merely daydreams.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness . . . Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.

No one is coming to save me; no one is coming to make life right for me; no one is coming to solve my problems. If I don't do something, nothing is going to get better.