The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

Filed in National by on November 3, 2021

This essay, by Italian economist Carlo Cipolla, has been around since 1976, but it remains fundamental to the understanding of human society and its defining characteristic, stupidity. Everyone should read it, because everyone is stupid about something some of the time, even though most of our problems are caused by the incalculably large number of people who are stupid about most things most of the time.

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  1. Andrew C says:

    Speaking of stupidity, how did we miss this one the other day?

    https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1455287112786489352?s=20

  2. Joe Connor says:

    Nitwitzke made the Maddow show with this last night:)

  3. jason330 says:

    The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    In this regard, Nature seems indeed to have outdone herself.