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hoanamiu | 6 months ago

Why do you think that? Do you have data or is it just, like, your vibe?

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GoatInGrey|6 months ago

One can apply a brief sanity check via reductio ad absurdum: it is less logical to assume that poor individuals possess greater intelligence than wealthy individuals.

Increased levels of stress, reduced consumption of healthcare, fewer education opportunities, higher likelihood of being subjected to trauma, and so forth paint a picture of correlation between wealth and cognitive functionality.

habinero|6 months ago

Yeah, that's not a good argument. That might be true for the very poor, sure, but not for the majority of the lower-to-middle of the middle class. There's fundamentally no difference between your average blue collar worker and a billionaire, except the billionaire almost certainly had rich parents and got lucky.

People really don't like the "they're not, they just got lucky" statement and will do a lot of things to rationalize it away lol.

intended|6 months ago

Counter point - rich people would remain rich, and we would have an ossified society if this was true.

Intelligence is not a singular pre-requisite to wealth or “to be rich”.

People can specialize in being intelligent, educated, well read, and more - while still being poor.

And we know that most entrepreneurs fail, which is why VCs function the way they do.