• felsiq@piefed.zip
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      Everybody knows that the only way to get rich is to be highly intelligent and competent, and surely whatever gets a single person obscenely rich is also perfectly transferable to improving an entire country.

      /s, in case me throwing up in my mouth while typing this didn’t come through over text

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        /s, in case me throwing up in my mouth while typing this didn’t come through over text

        Thanks, anyway. I’ve met enough people that genuinely believe what you wrote.

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      Lot of stupid people.

      These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

      1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

      2. The probability that a certain person (will) 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. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

      5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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      Because they control the narrative by controlling the media and make it seem like their goals align with the stories/expectations in people’s heads.