“When you’re dead, you don’t know it. The pain is felt by those around you. The same is true for stupid people.”

“One stupid person throws a stone down a well, a hundred intellects cannot bring it back up”. Persian Proverb

My Dad was in Intelligence all over the world in WWI. He was very good at playing stupid. He said that people open up to stupid people and love to explain things to them, or they ignore them and let things slip. My mother was a nurse, and my Dad had an appointment. The doctor went on to teach my father about how to get the best exchange for American money, since he was going to Europe. Dad nodded. My mother tried not to laugh because my DAD was the head foreign exchange officer at his bank. The doctor asked why he didn't say anything. Mom said, "Well, he got you talking, didn't he?" Our family motto should have been, "Stupid always wins."

Never trust anyone who can’t admit to you they weren’t once wrong about an important issue. Knowing you can be & have been deceived is an important truth to be aware of.

Three things:

I loved it when Homer Simpson said, "Why does the stuff that happens to stupid people keep happening to me?".

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This classification helps so much in explaining the behaviour of narcissists or abusive spouses / partners. I would constantly wonder why my husband was actively destroying our family and our financial security / future. I would keep trying to explain things to him, and wonder why he wasn't getting it. This perspective suddenly makes it so clear to me. He had no agenda of destroying the family or our finances. He actually had no agenda at all. He seemed to be acting on autopilot, without any apparent design or plan. And refusing help such as counseling. I would keep trying to understand him and his perspective. But now, with this explanation, I can see so clearly - he had no agenda or plan. He is just plain stupid - actively causing harm to himself, his spouse, and his children - without really intending to. Thank you for this new perspective!

I asked a shop teacher I had in high school once. “What’s worse to deal with, troublemakers or idiots?” And he said “idiots, because you can get rid of the troublemakers”.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"

I took in a friend who needed a place to stay. He was making a lot of money so I told him up front what I wanted for rent and food. He agreed. Keep in mind, this guy is brilliant. He worked for space X and a lot of different tech companies. Instead of paying rent, he gave all his money to catfish scams. I gave him a break and told him that the next time he gets money, he has to pay me first. Sure enough, he got paid and gave it to grifters. I kicked him out. He got so mad that he began manipulating me to give him money. As a result, I blocked him and will never speak to him again. We were friends since high school. I never understood how someone so smart could be so stupid.

I used to work at a call center for a famous luxury brand and what I always kept asking myself was "How can you earn so much money and be that stupid" (The answer probably is nepotism or something like that) I had calls from stupidly rich (pun intended) people asking the dumbest questions every day.

"The difference between being stupid and genius is that genius has its limits" - A. Einstein

“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person” - Bill Murray

A moment of silence for the stupid people watching this video and thinking they are part of the non-stupid crowd...

Now in my 40s, I realize I have been too kind in my assumptions, most of my life. The amount of stupid people out there is astounding, and everyday I look around and I am completely baffled by how many people are stupid.

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" - George Carlin . The current mess Humanity is in now, proves that beyond a doubt.

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”

After the last two years, this is proven beyond any shadow or shade of doubt.

(I apologize for my bad English😅) When I was in middle school, my math teacher here in Italy gifted me this book by Carlo Maria Cipolla entitled “Allegro, ma non troppo: le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana” (i.e.”Cheerful, but not too much: the basic laws of human stupidity). It included a first part where Cipolla mocked the economic and social history of the medieval times that connected with the second part about what you exposed in the video: the foundations of human stupidity. It is essentially a parody of the human behavior, though it can be expressed with rigorous mathematical laws because humans have always been intelligent and stupid through the history. A book that is pretty funny on how exposes in such an analytic way of speaking something so distant from an empiric, universal law that can define a person’s behavior in the society. Cipolla in the last pages of the book even leaves you some graphs and tells you to see how a person next to you behaves! You fulfill the graphic with the informations of the person, like name, behavior, actions, and after some calculations, you can put the person in one of the 4 dials of the graphic and see if, for example a friend, is stupid, intelligent, helpless or a bandit! It is such a funny book(that I recommend to everyone: it’s only 70 pages long), but with a bitter sweet taste. After 8 years, thanks to your video, I read again the book and I laughed so hard at some points: you remembered me of the old memories of my old school, friends and of my math teacher. I thank you! If someone wanted more information about the book or Cipolla, be free to ask…I hope that I can help…there are much more informations here in Italy of him and his works!