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.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
    79·
    6 days ago

    Sorry to say, but given that wealthy people are a minority and stupid people are not, it follows that they do not correlate.

        • irmoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Stating that the paragraph exists doesn’t really convince me… are there any specific sentences you can point at, and explain why they imply that rich = stupid and poor = smart? Seems to me they’re just saying that they have the privilege to choose to be stupid, not that being rich means they are stupid.

          • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            3 days ago

            I feel as though we are not reading the same thing then. The entire first paragraph lays the groundwork of the assertion that being poor means you end up being smarter. If you come to a different conclusion, then we disagree about that. Have a good day.

            • irmoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              It doesn’t say being poor makes you smarter, just that it strongly incentivises you to smarten up, or else your life will be much harder

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      161·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        6 days ago

        I didn’t say it was an indication of intelligence. Rather the opposite, I said that wealth and intelligence have no correlation.

    • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      6 days ago

      1. I didn’t say that rich people ARE stupid but CAN BE stupid without the consequences that most of us face. That’s is what we call PRIVILEGE

      2. How many rich people you know that are actually geniuses? And how many rich people have you heard who have done the stupidest thing possible? How is the relation between those two?