I cannot remember the last time I laughed out so loud while reading a book :-)
This is a master piece with around 10 minutes of reading time.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla.
- Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
- Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
- Law 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.
- Law 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.
- Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
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