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* We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are. | * We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are. | ||
* We systematically underestimate how much damage stupid people can do. | * We systematically underestimate how much damage stupid people can do. | ||
Stupidity ''begets'' misattributed malice: if we take it as a given that there are a lot more stupid people than there are malicious people, and that it is stupid to treat as malicious what is as well explained by benign stupidity, then a surfeit of stupidity will naturally give rise to a misapprehension of widespread malice. Which rather well sums up the rancorous world in which we find ourselves. | |||
Cipolla went on to create one of those simplistic four-box charts beloved of the management layer which, of course, cannot possibly hope to describe the world, but are still an amusing and memorable [[heuristic]], apt for making the world more [[legible]]. The two axes are “benefits to self” and “benefits to world”. The four quadrants are populated by 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 good. | Cipolla went on to create one of those simplistic four-box charts beloved of the management layer which, of course, cannot possibly hope to describe the world, but are still an amusing and memorable [[heuristic]], apt for making the world more [[legible]]. The two axes are “benefits to self” and “benefits to world”. The four quadrants are populated by 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 good. | ||