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RE: The Death Of Democracy III: The Asshole Quotient- Aspects Of Human Nature
the two fundamental characteristics of human nature are rational self-interest
the two fundamental characteristics of successful human nature are rational self-interest; fixed it ;>
Your view is similar to Cipolla's Laws of Stupidity, esp. in regards to the two Neg types
This is the Asshole Ratio- a democracy can support only so many assholes before turning into a tyranny (which always happens). This is perhaps not the most erudite choice of designations- but I like it.
I like it, too!
I think I can tie it into the rent-seekers/do-gooders concept very easily. Your two Neg types!
It looks like Cipolla's model is on it's side... The "Hurts" should be on the bottom... other than that it's right-on!
ahhh, I should have attached another version of the graph which divided the bandits quandrant into stupid bandits/smart bandits
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.
Corollary: a stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla
The laws of stupidity started out as a private joke...
Haha... Leave it to a Dago!
if you marry an economist, he will try to give you the graph, o my daughter