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“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.” | |||
:— Carlo Cipolla’s ''Third (and Golden) Basic Law of Stupidity'' (1976)}} | |||
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”. A worthy endeavour, but one from which we have learned little in half a century. This probably tells you what you need to know. | 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”. A worthy endeavour, but one from which we have learned little in half a century. This probably tells you what you need to know. | ||