In the past, scholars who were not financially independent … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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In the past, scholars who were not financially independent were directly funded by Maecenas ""rich patrons. Today they are funded by bureaucrats.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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