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 (the golden rule!!!)- 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.
Full text here by Carlo M. Cipolla, an italian historian who has written a marvelous little book in which this essay appeared: Allegro ma non tropo; thanks to Gregor for making me browse my bookshelf and read it again!
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