When you don’t have enough money, you have no choice but to be smarter and more resourceful. You have to learn, you have to look for other alternatives, be aware of where you are going, where you step when walking and, if you slip, to get up and take note of your mistakes. You can’t afford to be stupid or look stupid, otherwise your life, which is already hard, will get worse.
But when you are rich? It doesn’t fucking matter at all. You can make the biggest fuck up that a human being can do in his whole life; be deceived and swindled for amounts equivalent to a person’s 5-year salary, over and over again; you can believe all the fakenews and pseudosciences that humanity has created; you can screw up as many times as you want… You will still be rich, you will still be opulent, you will still be able to make more mistakes.
While all of us are one accident or a serious illness away from ending up in economic ruin, the rich don’t stop being rich even by dying.
Obvious? Yes, but it doesn’t hurt to remember.
Wealth is not an indication of intelligence. It’s more likely an indication of how exploitative you or your ancestors have been.
Rich people and poor people do not have the same incentives to be resourceful.
I didn’t say it was an indication of intelligence. Rather the opposite, I said that wealth and intelligence have no correlation.