If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Unconventional behavior requires compensation or it leads to confinement.
- In plain terms
- If you act crazy, make sure you get paid or you might get locked up.
- What can you take from it?
- Society rewards or punishes nonconformity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does society reward?
- How do you handle risk?
Another view
Many acts of rebellion are unpaid but necessary.
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