It isn’t. It’s meant to point out that calling something a ’tax on stupidity” is itself meaninglessly deep-sounding. Intelligence is used for pretty much everything; calling something a tax on stupidity says nothing more about it than “it’s part of the world”.
The entire world is a tax on stupidity.
Sounds meaninglessly deep to me.
It isn’t. It’s meant to point out that calling something a ’tax on stupidity” is itself meaninglessly deep-sounding. Intelligence is used for pretty much everything; calling something a tax on stupidity says nothing more about it than “it’s part of the world”.