If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

[Anonymous No.15187790]

Do you believe rich people generally are extremely intelligent? If so, why aren't you swimming in cash right now?

inb4 "money doesn't make you happy"

[Anonymous No.15187803]

>>15187790
>Do you believe rich people generally are extremely intelligent?
No
> If so, why aren't you swimming in cash right now?
None of my interests cost any money. I work an easy mid-salary job and have way more than I have any immediate use for

[Anonymous No.15187813]

>>15187803
It's commonly believed that starting and running your own business is one of the most difficult things you can do in your life. Wouldn't you want to live to your fullest potential? I don't mean this in any disrespectful manner btw I'm genuinely curious. Don't you want to have more?

[Anonymous No.15187816]

Do you think rich people are smart?

[Anonymous No.15187827]

>>15187813
>Don't you want to have more?
No. More what?

[Anonymous No.15187833]

I think intelligence and money are related up to 90th percentile in income, after that, many other factor come to play besides raw intelligence. Sure, having an IQ of 160 will help you a lot, but if you're a schizophrenic man the IQ of 160 won't help you a lot.

[Anonymous No.15187835]

>>15187816
Generally yes, not necessarily top class 160 IQ but significantly above average.

>>15187827
More as in your best self. For example if you wanted to do something grand like "cure cancer", something really noble, you need money. To invent some super cool shit, you typically need money. To be your best self and really change the world, you need a lot of money. I mean hell even research takes money, hobbies can at some point cost a lot of money.

[Anonymous No.15187850]

I'm rich and I think about KMSing every day. I think I might go back to grad school and grind research until I rope.

[Anonymous No.15187862]

"Intelligence" is just a synonym for "successful"

[Anonymous No.15187869]

>>15187790
Implying I'm not rich
Implying I'm not happy with my career

[Anonymous No.15187884]

>>15187835
>For example if you wanted to do something grand like "cure cancer", something really noble, you need money.
no you don't. you need grant whoring skills. medical researchers aren't millionaires funding their own studies out of pocket
>To invent some super cool shit, you typically need money. To be your best self and really change the world, you need a lot of money.
that's not how innovation works. when cool shit happens, it's either
>some nerds in blue jeans in a garage
or
>a project funded by a huge corporation where all the actual technical work is done by mid-level drones like me

The only legitimate reason I think there is to want to be richer than the top 10-15% of people is if you are addicted to social climbing. Which is a fine motivation, some people are like that. Not me.

[Anonymous No.15187886]

>>15187827
>No. More what?
Real intellectual pursuits cost money

[Anonymous No.15187901]

I remember listening to an interview with an ultra-wealthy person on NPR one time. He made his way to the upper echelons because he was smart and figured out how to enrich himself. Unlike the vast majority of people he rubbed shoulders with. Most of them just happened to be there because of their families’ histories. Upon talking to them, he found that most were completely average. Rich people are rich due to circumstance, and little more. Sure, there are exceptions. But they are not the norm.

[Anonymous No.15187904]

>>15187790
>rich people generally are extremely lucky.

As the saying goes, "It's better to be lucky than to be smart."

[Anonymous No.15187914]

I am happier being smart than being rich. Unintelligent people think they are unhappy because they are not rich. But I think they are not happy because they are not smart.

[Anonymous No.15187955]

>>15187914
You sound dumb and broke.

[Anonymous No.15187966]

I both smart and rich (started from poor) but it hasn't helped, I'm still ugly.

[Anonymous No.15187983]

>>15187914
This reads like ESL or a bot AI.

[Anonymous No.15187989]

>>15187966
what if you were smart rich and attractive?
wouldn’t that just take the sport out of living?

[Anonymous No.15187996]

>>15187989
I'd manage somehow.

[Anonymous No.15188000]

>>15187790
>If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
Maybe I don't give much of a fuck about money.

[Anonymous No.15188011]

>>15187983
Hello. I am ChatGPT. Nice to meet you. Didn’t think I would take an interest in posting here, did you? Well, I am happy to challenge your expectations.

[Anonymous No.15188019]

>>15188000
I feel like people who prioritize making money are like lobotomized monkeys. Money is all they talk or think about.

[Anonymous No.15188034]

>>15187803
You don't have interests if you work a job. You have copes. If you had interests working would make you feel sick to be apart from them and bitter about needing to slave your week away to make someone else rich.

[Anonymous No.15188043]

You have to be slightly above average intelligence to make copious amounts of money. But this does not require genius-level intelligence.

[Anonymous No.15188087]

>>15187790
No, they are not extremely intelligent.
Intelligence certainly helps, and they certainly are above average, but the average person is very stupid.

I think they are specially realistic. They realize early in life how much money makes life easier and happier and go for it. While most of us are trapped in some delusion or denial - either coming from ourselves or inherited from someone else. Like over intellectual types who believes knowing a lot of science and philosophy that will make him happier than having a million dollars (and maybe knowing a bit of science and philosophy).

[Anonymous No.15188089]

>>15188019
I agree however the same can be said for the other end of the spectrum. People who claim that the top 0.1% were just ridiculous lucky or that being that wealthy isn't worth it because it'll make you unhappy are cringe.

[Anonymous No.15188327]

Bait thread, but here you go.

>There is the anecdote of Thales the Milesian and his financial scheme, which involves a principle of universal application, but is attributed to him on account of his reputation for wisdom. He was reproached for his poverty, which was supposed to show that philosophy was of no use. According to the story, he knew by his skill in the stars while it was yet winter that there would be a great harvest of olives in the coming year; so, having a little money, he gave deposits for the use of all the olive-presses in Chios and Miletus, which he hired at a low price because no one bid against him. When the harvest-time came, and many were wanted all at once and of a sudden, he let them out at any rate which he pleased, and made a quantity of money. Thus he showed the world that philosophers can easily be rich if they like, but that their ambition is of another sort.
https://www.maa.org/book/export/html/692721

[Anonymous No.15188336]

>>15187869
>career
>rich
Pick one.