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[quote=Anonymous]Sure, not just brains.  Nobody said it was.  Do you think he would have been successful if he were as dumb as a post?

Are you saying that all people need are opportunity and those that are hard workers will prosper and intelligence has nothing to do with success?

I think you didn't understand my initial post.  Intelligence is correlated with income.  It's not a hard and fast relationship, but higher IQ's are correlated with higher incomes.  This isn't an opinion, there have been studies that back this up.  Is that really that hard for you to accept/understand?

[quote=Anonymous]Yes, he OWNS a company.  He also GROOMS his employees.  So you can start off mulching and eventually move up.  He has several men running the show.

It's opportunity, dumb ass - not [b]just[/b] high IQ.

There are plenty of kids living in poverty who have NO opportunity to shine.  And you don't have to be a genius to run a strong business.  You need opportunities and skills.

[quote=Anonymous]No, your friend OWNS a landscaping business.  My guess is that he's a reasonably smart guy if he was able to build a successful business from scratch.  Do you think all the guys he has mowing lawns at 10 bucks an hour are as smart as he is?  I've worked construction, and I know that skilled tradesmen aren't stupid, that's why they can often make good salaries.
[quote=Anonymous]My friend is a landscaper who lives in Potomac.

no college degree - straight from HS into a business he started IN high school

I really think you're limited in your experiences, PP, as there are PLENTY of people making quite a bit of money working the "trades."  I know; I live among them in the outer burbs, moron.

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Generally.... correlates....   we're not talking in absolutes here.    Of course there are exceptions.  But if asked to bet 1000 bucks on which person was smarter, someone making $150K as an engineer or [b]someone making 20K as a landscaper[/b] would you flip a coin to choose?  I wouldn't.  I would probably be wrong sometimes, but I'd guess that much more often than not I'd be right.  Higher IQ correlates positively with higher salary later in life.  And "less lucrative careers" doesn't mean poor;[b] neither of the jobs you mentioned are particularly low paying[/b]. [/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]

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