Hanlon’s razor applies exactly as much to billionaires as it does to ordinary people. Stupidity is generally the explanation where you suspect malice. The difference is, they can and do externalize the fallout of stupidity more easily.
Conversation
Replying to
To treat the rich as less capable of stupidity is to build a politics around malevolent gods. You end up expecting them to not do things which will eventually hurt themselves but they do.
4
1
28
“The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.” harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-l
3
1
11
Replying to
Agree directionally, but not specifically. Billionaires are more “commercial” on average. There’s even a higher rate of sociopathy than in the general population. Not trying to insult/attack billionaires as a group, but it’s not a random sampling of the general population.
3
One could make the case that malice is a fundamental attribute of stupidity.
Putting energy into causing pain to another is about as short sighted and stupid as it gets -- considering we are all passengers on the frozen crust of a molten rock hurtling through space
2
Replying to
Hanlon’s razor harks back to a time that offered a more generous margin for plausible deniability before the engineering of incompetence became much better documented
1
1
Show more replies



