Stupid is as stupid does

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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity​

The second essay, "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" ("Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana", 1976),[3][4][5] explores the controversial subject of stupidity.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

  1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
  2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
  3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
  4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
  5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
 

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Everyone is stupid in one way or another, as it's impossible to know all things or even all things that every human alive knows.
 
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The most DANGEROUS People I have ever encoutered ( non Criminasl ) are the ones who CLAIM to have a certain level of Education, or Degrees, and it is all totally fabricated... If such a Person is in a Management Position, he can get a LOT of people in trouble or even Killed .
These are the Sociopaths who live and walk among us
the BEST Example I can give of this , is that Woman who Scammed people with her fake Blood test invetion .. they made a Movie about it
looks up Elizabeth Holmes.. its a Fascinating Story of a true Sociopath and how they operate.

Those type of people are literally a ticking time Bomb and need to be in Prison.
 
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