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Hero Among Monkeys

from Slow Car Crash by Mat Ward

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“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of... typewriters... there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad'... Now that we have found that hero among monkeys, would any [one] invest [their] life's savings on a bet that the monkey would write the 'Odyssey' next?”

A quote from stastician Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Fooled By Randomness. People who get lucky in financial markets attract the money of the desperate, supposedly.

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from Slow Car Crash, released January 19, 2017

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Mat Ward Australia

Mat Ward blends future bass, drum and bass, punk and politics to come up with a different sound. He has released albums about financial markets, Apple, Elon Musk, surveillance, the media, Mars, protest chants and the climate. He also writes books and a music column that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Al Jourgensen. ... more

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