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- Page Length: 64
- Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar.
- It is human stupidity.
- Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws.
- The Laws:
- Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us.
- The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
- A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves.
- Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals.
- A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
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3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves.
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My kids get on my case, they say the people I sometimes refer to, they are not stupid, they haven't been fully educated or informed, to which I respond, no, some people are just stupid.
I may just buy a hardcover and leave it in the living room.
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3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves.
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Also, at $0.03 per page this isn't exactly slick.
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SOOOO true - Lord knows I've tried...
$2 for a 64-page book that most people here could summarize being given only the title? Spend your $2 on a couple classics converted to ebook and feed your brain instead. So you don't become... well, you know.
Also, at $0.03 per page this isn't exactly slick.
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Also, at $0.03 per page this isn't exactly slick.
Even at just $2, I felt stupid for buying a 64 page book.