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I think what he's mostly selling is a feeling of superiority. "I'm so much smarter than those sheep. Muh black swans and fat tailed distributions". A person susceptible to this is definitely going to buy more books to find new ways to feel superior to the "masses".

To be fair, I agree with his view on the need to have skin in the game and occasionally he has interesting insights like the decisive stubborn minority.