A Boring Dystopia

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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation

Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.

Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.

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

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

OOOOF. This is a gooder. Cuz like, technically being terrible at math is an independent characteristic, meaning that I can't categorize you as stupid, thus adhering to the 4th law.

Congratulations. You solved stupidity.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

Then you really know your people.

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL of the godfather of the quadrant meme, is that the name?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nolan Chart.

Not to be confused with Gartner Chart.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like it's worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes that’s what rule 2 is for.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just think it could stand to be more explicit. Some people, being stupid, wouldn't be able to figure out that they may themselves be stupid based only on those laws