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Does anybody have a year for it? I went with 2009 via https://web.archive.org/web/20090601000000*/http://www.zoon.... but it feels like it might be older, especially as the author had been dead for 9 years.

Edit: a comment (now deleted) helpfully pointed out the Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987 reference at the bottom. Thanks!

Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Basic%20Laws%20of%20Human%20St.... Interesting annotation by pg at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=817703.

Url changed from http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit..., which points to this.

Wikipedia page of the author [1] claims it was circulated among the friends in 1976 (English) and published in 1988 (Italian).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla

Yes, it is a "classic", and actually the linked to online version (with the illustrations) is (besides being not complete) somehow much worse (IMHO) than the original, which is a very plain booklet where the cartesian diagrams are less distracting, here it is (from archive.org), the PDF is an actual scan of the booklet:

https://archive.org/details/The_Basic_Laws_of_Human_Stupidit...

More history about the Author and the book is here: http://gandalf.it/stupid/cipoleng.htm

You're probably right about that; such framing has a huge effect on how a text is perceived. But I think in this case having a normal web page might be more important.

Thank you!

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