DUmmy asks; "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich"?

[Dori]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024396223

LongTomH (4,683 posts)

"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"

Got this quote from a friend's email:


"What gets me, is that people with a lot of money associate their wealth with super intelligence, super hardwork, and being all around a super person. Like when Bill Gates challenges the World Chess Champion to a game of Chess and loses in 75 seconds. An average player probably could have held out for 15 or 20 moves. Personally I think the part of one's brain that is devoted to making money , crowds out everything else when that's your only goal in life."

As opposed to devoting one's life to working the system?

Awknid (189 posts)

2. This is my pet peave
 
I completely agree. It's truly sad to watch them make asses of themselves. I know an idiot. He always was the dumbest one in the class and the least curious around. But he got lucky and got rich and now he thinks he's so smart!

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad!

Yep...only the dumb lucky ones get rich.  

hobbit709 (29,526 posts)

3. Maybe I'm not rich because I'm so smart.
 
I realized a long time ago that those who make a lot of money usually screw people over. I prefer to face myself in the mirror without flinching every morning.

Yep....the only way to get rich is to screw people.

Octafish (37,756 posts)

10. That's the smartest kind of smart there is...
 
...It's called love -- the realization that another human being has infinite value and one's own path in existence is determined by that knowledge.

Too many never learn that lesson. For proof: Just look around at the world today and see.

Huh?  Tokers are the smartest of the smart...now sing  

badtoworse (4,180 posts)

5. Another crapping on rich people, sour grapes thread.

Wait...you rich or something?  I bet your stupid and screw people.

[Carl]

Who can argue with the genius of the DUmp.
Only the smartest alive would be beggars,homeless,criminals and deadbeats.

[Karin]

badtoworse (4,180 posts)

5. Another crapping on rich people, sour grapes thread.

Hey DUmmie, that's the party line, and you're on thin ice even questioning it. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

tblue37 (12,685 posts)
30. Maybe because my moral values limit what I am willing to do

to get money.

DUmmies have moral values?  Who knew?

[landofconfusion80]

Who knew standing in line at a soup kitchen was a sign of brilliance? Had them pegged all wrong!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

hobbit709 (29,526 posts)

3. Maybe I'm not rich because I'm so smart.
 
I realized a long time ago that those who make a lot of money usually screw people over.

But not smart enough to figure out how to give people good paying jobs while curing all the world's ills?

[jukin]

I'll field this one for the DUmbasses.

1. The evil white republican male has rigged the game against people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments.
2. The country was and is unfair to people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments.
3. Hardcore socialists/progressives/fascists haven't been control so the country is unfair to people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments.
4. The wrong people are in charge throughout collectivism in every country it has been tried so people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments can't get ahead.
5. The world is unfair to people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments.
6. Having to work hard is unfair to people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments.
7. Having multiple mental diseases is unfair to people that think they are really smart but have no accomplishments.

[USA4ME]

For a group who doesn't believe money is all that important they sure do talk about how jealous they are that some have too much of it and how they need to have more.

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[GOBUCKS]

Awknid (189 posts)

2. This is my pet peave

My pet peeve is people who are too stupid to spell simple words.

[98ZJUSMC]

LongTomH (4,683 posts)

"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"

Got this quote from a friend's email:


"What gets me, is that people with a lot of money associate their wealth with super intelligence, super hardwork, and being all around a super person. Like when Bill Gates challenges the World Chess Champion to a game of Chess and loses in 75 seconds. An average player probably could have held out for 15 or 20 moves. Personally I think the part of one's brain that is devoted to making money , crowds out everything else when that's your only goal in life."

Coloring inside the lines is very difficult you, isn't it?

My pet peeve is people who are too stupid to spell simple words.

 

hobbit709 (29,526 posts)

3. Maybe I'm not rich because I'm so smart.

No, that's not it.  Trust me.

tblue37 (12,685 posts)
30. Maybe because my moral values limit what I am willing to do

to get money.

Hardly....

[Delmar]

Response to LongTomH (Original post)Tue Jan 28, 2014, 08:56 AM
Star Member n2doc (30,089 posts)
7. Justin Bieber is Rich. Paris Hilton is Rich, Lindsay Lohan is rich

Nothing about being rich requires you to be smart. And I won't even get into the political idiots who also happen to be rich.

I will.

Try this thought experiment. Imagine that someone grows up in poverty, works his way through law school by holding the night shift as a Capitol Hill policeman, and spends all but two years of his career as a public servant. Now imagine that this person’s current salary — and he’s at the top of his game — is $193,400. You probably wouldn’t expect him to have millions in stocks, bonds, and real estate.

But, surprise, he does, if he’s our Senate majority leader, whose net worth is between 3 and 10 million dollars, according to OpenSecrets.org.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314025/how-did-harry-reid-get-rich-betsy-woodruff

That's right Dingy Harry went from rags to riches, the crooked son of a bitch.