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See, your problem is you assume the 1% are intelligent. They are not. The attribute they have the most of is greed. Greed can blind even the intelligent, and most of them aren't even playing with a full deck.
I think it's more the assumption that things won't change. Plenty of large, previously-succsssful businesses have collapsed because they did not keep a finger up to feel if the winds of change are shifting and instead doubled and quadrupled down on a no longer viable business model.
Yes, and that is a demonstration of how they are not actually inteligent.
Yeah just look at the latest posts by Elon on twi....I mean X...
It's Twitter. Don't humor him calling it X.
Of course they’re intelligent. Lots of people are greedy but most of them aren’t greedy and rich.
Sorry, can’t relate to thinking Trump is intelligent.
And if Trump were the only part of the 1%, you might have a point.
Being intelligent doesn’t make you rich, being ruthless to your fellow humans makes you rich.
Normal people wouldn’t fuck over any and everyone for a dollar.
Being super lucky about the family you’re born into helps too
Yes, but being intelligent and ruthless means you're more likely to succeed.
You can have multiple traits that affect things. It's almost never just one thing or another.
Intelligent, ruthless (I tend to parse this as “sociopathic”), and lucky. The socioeconomic status from which a person starts has a MAJOR impact on “success”.
Eh, I wouldn’t say it’s a largely influential factor.
Maybe a handful of tech company founders (e.g. Atlassian guy) have some degree of intelligence in their field, but id argue connections, sociopathy, and the right place at the right time are bigger factors. But most are born into it idiots like Trump or Musk.
Well if you don't think so, it must be true, right?
And most of the people who cause all this heinous shit aren't nearly as publicly facing as the ones you mention. Because they're not idiots. They use the public facing fools as scapegoats for their actions.
How does it feel to lap that up?
Just because they're cowards who disavow responsibility doesn't make them intelligent.
EVERYONE knows to not do inhumane shit out in the open, it doesn't tale intelligence to understand that. Even children know to hide bad behavior.
I think you're right that they aren't below average intelligence, but you're giving them too much credit.