Michelle got me a copy of this book for Christmas, and it's been a wild read, cementing my preference to invest in Homer Simpson's pumpkin futures long before putting a penny into cryptocurrency.
This bit from the chapter titled "Ponzinomics" sums up a lot of what it takes to combat falsehoods in the Internet Age.
The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
~Alberto Brandolini, Italian computer programmer
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