I was arguing with a guy who claimed Africa’s poverty is to be blamed on the people of Africa because Europe has according to him left it alone for over 100 years now. He then hit me with the line ‘Capitalism isn’t a political system’.
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I am not very good at considering this and applying it in my own life but I wanted share Brandolini’s Law:
exactly
I’d never heard it called it that before today. TIL.
I’ve always referred to it by its alternative name the Bullshit Asymmetry Principal.
Good thing we automated the process of producing bullshit.