Knowledge is not power, it's terrifying and deprives you of sleep!

Can't rate because this is way over my head, but you don't want to disagree with someone whose name has become a common scientific term.

All I know about economics I learned from EVE Online, and what I learned is that wasting money to destroy a market is more fun than anything you could actually buy with it. When I made my first few billion ISK I used it to demolish an ore market because it was more fun than any doomsday weapon. No capitalist expects anybody to really work against profit and self-interest, they just stand around screaming "WHYYYY?" as you destroy all their wealth along with your own. They keep thinking it's random market fluctuations, when it's really a billionaire who is doing Gods Will.

Economic terrorism is incredibly fun and effective. Its fun to BE that butterfly, and easy. They never see it coming. Markets cannot handle a terribly wealthy religious fanatic terrorist who'd demolish bottleneck markets and bring the whole place down.

Maybe that's relevant?

-2 stars because Mandelbrot really only has a cameo appearance in this clip, and there's more doomsaying and conjecture than hard science. Still, when Mandelbrot says he's losing sleep over the economy, you better fucking listen.