The rise of the nerds and the fall of the academics

This article was published by @Decafquest on medium.

“This is one of those untypical success stories you read about everywhere. It’s the story of how the NERDS got themselves an appointment with representatives from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. It all started with one such ‘Peter Griffiny’ twitter account called Lebfinance, who joined in August of 2018. Lebfinance’s main goal was to troll self-proclaimed financial ‘experts’ who situated themselves as the ultimate authority on economic matters hopscotching their way from one tv channel to the other, espousing for the most part nonsense.”

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