Billions can't buy you smarts. Intelligence cannot be purchased. A doofus can be a billionaire. Does that encourage you/depress you?

Money actually does buy smarts to some extent. Children of wealthy parents, apart from being likely to have a higher intelligence genetically, also benefit in their intellectual development because of the positive environment they're in. Intelligence is largely a function of good health. If you're rich you can create healthy lifestyle, eat high quality food, take high quality supplements etc etc, and your brain is going to work better.

There is not a single dumb self made billionaire in the world. Dumb people simply can't do that.

It's pathetic you need to belittle people like this. Why do you do it? Do you feel so inferior that you just can't admit that someone you don't like is smarter than you, more energetic than you, more self controlled than you etc etc?

70% of lottery winners go bankrupt. That should tell you that the average person is completely incapable of handling money. They go off the rails completely. No self control, no forward planning, totally naive. Therefore people who have money and hold onto it have something doofuses don't.


This post was edited by Zeitgeist at February 7, 2018 8:35 PM MST

Well you would have to have some "smarts" already to make that kind of money. Whether you spend it as part of a quest for more intelligence would be up to you.  I don't know - I  know I'll never be as smart as a lot of people as far as understanding some things so I am just happy with what I am and what I have achieved. Let the intelligent people take care of themselves.