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Ha, I have independently arrived at this theory, with far less structure and elegance.

Flaize = flail + lose. You're flailing and you're losing (and taking other people down with you).

"The world is full of flaizers, non-stop flaizing," encompasses laws 1 and 3.



Crabs in a bucket


Crabs in a bucket is probably the bandit left triangle, people competing by dragging others down.

Flaizers are the lower left quadrant, what original author refers to as "stupid" — causing harm to themselves and others with no benefit for any parties.

Yeah I know stop trying to make fetch a thing




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