Taleb perhaps expresses his intent best in the book’s Prologue: “This [Antifragility] provides a solution to what I’ve called the Black Swan problem — the impossibility of calculating the risks of consequential rare events and predicting their occurrence.” Fundamentally, he is “promoting antifragility”.

Antifragility focuses on “gaining from disorder”, but does not necessarily imply “others losing from disorder” (that is, “comes at the costs of others”). One’s antifragility (gaining from disorder) does not necessarily imply other’s being antifragile (losing from disorder).

Also, Taleb’s examples perhaps emphasize: “If antifragility is the property of all those natural (and complex) systems that have survived, depriving these systems of volatility, randomness, and stressors will harm them. They will weaken, die, or blow up. We have been fragilizing.” Fundamentally, not being antifragile fragilizes others!

“It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.”