That's Taleb, trying to be an expert on everything.<p><i>"About in the 1990s, people suddenly realized that working as a company man was safe… provided the company stayed around."</i><p>1990s? That's when being a "company man" ended. Taleb uses IBM as an example, but IBM had their first layoff in 1993.[1] IBM made it through the Great Depression without laying off anybody.<p>Then he goes on to an argument that only autocrats are free, because elected leaders are subservient to their electorate. He mentions Putin, but not Trump. In the last century, autocrats haven't done all that well; they mostly lost wars and headed countries that went downhill.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/16/business/first-layoffs-seen-at-ibm.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/16/business/first-layoffs-see...</a>
TL;DR life is chaos. Slavery is giving up your will for the illusion of safety and protection. Freedom is only found by taking on the risk of self-ownership.