If you’re so smart why aren’t you rich?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother is much dumber than me and quite rich (in sales). I got rich the smart way (law) and he’s definitely winning.

Meh.

Getting rich the smart way is tech, not law.

I am not sure why lawyers think they are very smart.

LOL! As a lawyer with tech clients, I assure you they're a bunch of dumb dumbs. Which is why so many lost their shirts (and others their freedom) in obvious scams like crypto and NFTs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The older I am the more I am learning that only the smart people are the ones who are able to make real money. They are creative, diligent and understand how the world works and how to solve problems and improve their lives.

If you cannot do that then, I’m sorry you are dumb.

Soo by your reasoning the cashmeousside girl aka bad babie is of utmost intelligence?

[Anonymous]

This is a good troll post. I’m sure there is a correlation between income and intelligence. But it’s far from perfect I make a ton of money and I know many people who are smarter than me that make much less money. Intelligence is one of many factors that determine income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good troll post. I’m sure there is a correlation between income and intelligence. But it’s far from perfect I make a ton of money and I know many people who are smarter than me that make much less money. Intelligence is one of many factors that determine income.

Exactly. It's because the rich were more likely to take risks and they were lucky those risks worked and made them rich.


Whereas someone smarter may be risk adverse and didn't take any risks.

[Anonymous]

I'm in the food industry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good troll post. I’m sure there is a correlation between income and intelligence. But it’s far from perfect I make a ton of money and I know many people who are smarter than me that make much less money. Intelligence is one of many factors that determine income.

Exactly. It's because the rich were more likely to take risks and they were lucky those risks worked and made them rich.


Whereas someone smarter may be risk adverse and didn't take any risks.

I think work ethic/ambition/drive is more important than intelligence and risk taking in terms of becoming rich. Most (nearly all) lawyers and doctors are wealthy but risk adverse. I guess to become super wealthy, eg, $30 million + net worth, risk taking is a big factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The older I am the more I am learning that only the smart people are the ones who are able to make real money. They are creative, diligent and understand how the world works and how to solve problems and improve their lives.

If you cannot do that then, I’m sorry you are dumb.

Soo by your reasoning the cashmeousside girl aka bad babie is of utmost intelligence?

PP, please show some respect. It’s Bhad Bhabie.

[Anonymous]

America needs all types of people, and we need smart people at all levels. Working class smart, middle class smart. Even poor people have highly intelligent people in their midst and they need them to advocate for them. So, yes being intelligent can increase the odds of being wealthy but it’s neither sufficient nor necessary.

But thank you for the laugh. Found the headline funny (in a dumb-funny way).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The older I am the more I am learning that only the smart people are the ones who are able to make real money. They are creative, diligent and understand how the world works and how to solve problems and improve their lives.

If you cannot do that then, I’m sorry you are dumb.

Wow, you’re getting stupider with age, not wiser.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Because my IQ is 150 but I have ADHD.

[Anonymous]

Because intelligence doesn't pay. Motivation and flexible values do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of smart people who don’t care about being rich. The fact that OP doesn’t understand this tells a lot about them.

I’m one of them. I could have gone into any profession, but I chose a service profession because giving back is more important to me than amassing a ton of money I don’t need.

I won’t lose any sleep wondering if OP believes my priorities make me stupid. I’m also smart enough to know that anonymous opinions of me don’t matter.

[Anonymous]

On average, smart people probably have more money than dumb people, but the correlation is not perfect. There are a lot of smart people who are very risk adverse and cynical about entrepreneurial efforts. If a less smart person can find an opportunity that can score big with lots of hard work or doing something others don’t want to do, they can make a fortune.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother is much dumber than me and quite rich (in sales). I got rich the smart way (law) and he’s definitely winning.

Meh.

Getting rich the smart way is tech, not law.

I am not sure why lawyers think they are very smart.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother is much dumber than me and quite rich (in sales). I got rich the smart way (law) and he’s definitely winning.

Meh.

Getting rich the smart way is tech, not law.

I am not sure why lawyers think they are very smart.

LOL! As a lawyer with tech clients, I assure you they're a bunch of dumb dumbs. Which is why so many lost their shirts (and others their freedom) in obvious scams like crypto and NFTs.

No that’s the brogrammers — jocks and waspy crew who used to stream into IB and Wall Street. Tech is where the best rent-seeking is, but these are not smart people.

The actual techies, who design the algorithm that run ML, scale databases, etc are probably pretty smart but often didn’t prioritize income over working on cool tech and innovation — they congregate on Hacker News and ridicule crypto and NFTs constantly.

I was sorta smart techie, and I had no desire to be rich or have much money (I was a little bit of a minimalist hippie, going car free etc nonsense) until I got married and then HOLY F is money important esp with kids, but it’s harder to pivot when you are already knee deep in working on astronomy software for NASA.