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Is it possible to make a lot of money and be stupid?

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06 Oct 2008, 3:50 pm

I have come across attorneys and doctors that seem like idiots. Is that possible?



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06 Oct 2008, 3:51 pm

Yes.
Donald Trump's a idiot.



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06 Oct 2008, 3:57 pm

GWB is wealthy.

Need I say more?



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06 Oct 2008, 3:59 pm

Biogeek wrote:
GWB is wealthy.

Need I say more?
Of course. anyone can have money and be an idiot. and smart people can also be poor. In fact that's usually how it is.



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06 Oct 2008, 4:00 pm

Getting rich is more a question of ability to manipulate than of intelligence.


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06 Oct 2008, 4:11 pm

Paris Hilton gets thousands of $$$ just for showing up in a club...


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06 Oct 2008, 4:16 pm

YES!

My lawyer never reviewed my case before court. It was crazy, my judge acted like he knew more about what was going on than my own attorney. I actually had an opportunity to sue him but I didn't. He had my files mixed up with another client!! ! I never knew people were allowed to be THAT stupid! I mean I could've been someone accused of murder!

See all you need to do is become "academically smart" in a field that is in great demand. You get your little piece of paper called a degree and then you're off in the real world ready to make some real money.


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06 Oct 2008, 4:28 pm

MissConstrue wrote:
YES!


See all you need to do is become "academically smart" in a field that is in great demand. You get your little piece of paper called a degree and then you're off in the real world ready to make some real money.


That's why I always laugh out loud at the Wizard giving the Scarecrow a Diploma in "Thinkology", it's just a piece of paper that proves the person jumped through the proper hoops and got rewarded with. When I worked for Sinister McScrooge, I realized he wasn't smarter than I am. He was a far better salesman than I could ever be, and was absolutely ruthless in closing a deal.


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06 Oct 2008, 4:35 pm

Many times it's not "what" you know, but "who" you know...or what family you were born into.


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06 Oct 2008, 4:36 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
MissConstrue wrote:
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See all you need to do is become "academically smart" in a field that is in great demand. You get your little piece of paper called a degree and then you're off in the real world ready to make some real money.


That's why I always laugh out loud at the Wizard giving the Scarecrow a Diploma in "Thinkology", it's just a piece of paper that proves the person jumped through the proper hoops and got rewarded with. When I worked for Sinister McScrooge, I realized he wasn't smarter than I am. He was a far better salesman than I could ever be, and was absolutely ruthless in closing a deal.


MAN, just TODAY two IDIOTS, that do LESS work than I do, so they probably get paid MORE per hour of "actual" work than I do, showed me that they knew SO little about their job that they were like race car drivers that don't know what tires or gas are! And THEY supposedly got one of those diplomas of thinkology! ONE even tried to push my info back in my face saying I was wrong. A few minutes later, I got to hear his apology because HE WAS WRONG!

So YEP, money and intelligence are RARELY linked! Some of the smartest people are NOWHERE NEAR any list, and some IDIOTS are practically on all of them.



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06 Oct 2008, 6:53 pm

Yes. Stupid people win the lottery all the time.


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06 Oct 2008, 6:54 pm

There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom.


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06 Oct 2008, 7:02 pm

A lot of stupid people make a lot of money, but they don't often keep it. A lot of celebrities blow through tremendous amounts of money and wind up in debt.



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06 Oct 2008, 7:04 pm

Callista wrote:
There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom.


Well, I was talking about people that don't even REALLY have intelligence, as far as I am concerned.



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06 Oct 2008, 7:05 pm

9CatMom wrote:
A lot of stupid people make a lot of money, but they don't often keep it. A lot of celebrities blow through tremendous amounts of money and wind up in debt.


There's that Yank fighter, can't recall his name. Made something like a 100 hundred million dollars and spent it all.


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