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:
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.
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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!