#books
Carlo M Cipolla's _[Basic Laws of Human Stupidity](https://www.amazon.in/Basic-Laws-Human-Stupidity/dp/0753554836):_
1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
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.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
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