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Wow. Was it written by a 15-year-old high-schooler who had recently found a thesaurus? That is just so clunky to read.

A great way to detect stupidity is by finding the people who use the biggest words they can, all the time.



If you had read all the way to the end, you would have seen this:

(There is genius at work in this thesis. It came round about by way of reader Sam Keen, who sent us a thin gray monograph printed in Bologna, Italy. The trail eventually led to Carlo M. Cipolla, the author, who is currently Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley - Kevin Kell)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla


Which is great, but I don't like having to unpick word salad.




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