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{{A|devil|[[File:Cipolla-matrix.png|thumb|Stupidity mapped, yesterday.]]}}Italian economic historian and raconteur Carlo Cipolla pinned down stupidity in his 1976 essay ''Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana'' - “the basic laws of human stupidity”. They are, broadly, these: | {{A|devil|[[File:Cipolla-matrix.png|thumb|center|Stupidity mapped, yesterday.]]}}Italian economic historian and raconteur Carlo Cipolla pinned down stupidity in his 1976 essay ''Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana'' - “the basic laws of human stupidity”. They are, broadly, these: | ||
* To be stupid is to harm someone else without personally benefitting. Stupidity results inevitably in net loss. Pillagers may be nasty, but they aren’t stupid. | * To be stupid is to harm someone else without personally benefitting. Stupidity results inevitably in net loss. Pillagers may be nasty, but they aren’t stupid. | ||
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* We systematically underestimate how much damage stupid people can do. | * We systematically underestimate how much damage stupid people can do. | ||
Cipolla went on to create one of those simplistic four-box charts which of course cannot possibly hope to describe the world, but is still an amusing [[heuristic]]. The two axes are “benefits to self” and “benefits to world”. The four quadrants are the ''intelligent'' who help others and help themselves; the ''bandits'', who help themselves by harming others, the ''helpless'', who help others without personally benefiting, and the ''stupid'' who basically just get in the way, not doing themselves or anyone else any favours. | |||
Being as it is a cost, the [[JC]] is somewhere between ''helpless'' and ''stupid''. Being a glass half-full sort of fellow, I likes to think of myself as merely helpless. It certainly feels that way. | |||
Being as it is a cost, the JC is somewhere between helpless and stupid. Being a glass half-full sort of fellow, | |||
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*[[:Category:Archetypes|Archetypes]] | |||