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The OP lost me on a bunch of bad analogies. I’ll keep recommending to my friends The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla. [0] https://www.goodreads.

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• MaxBarraclough 5y ago
  Not a good summary. Some more informative links: • http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla#The_Basic_Laws_of_Human_Stupidity_(1976) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla#The_Basic_Law... • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570448 (as someone else linked)
  • 0x10c0fe11ce 5y ago
    Usually I recommend the book as my friends don’t like summaries. But thanks anyway.