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Message: [QUOTE="hackmeplz, post: 2000100, member: 89075"] Just as in poker, it's about probability. Are there dumb rich people? Sure. Are there smart poor people? Sure. If we took the intelligence/motivation of the average rich person would be way higher than the average poor person? Heck yeah it would. To inherit the money someone before them had to make it. Generally people smart enough to make it in the first place are going to help their kids out a bit, but they're also a lot more likely to drill values like hard work and dedication into their children. Not to say that this is completely fair but it's how it is, and most people who inherited their wealth are still far more ambitious/intelligent than the average person. And if they're not? gg fortune. It's pretty easy for a stupid person to blow a ton of money they inherit. So if I'm passionate about something but have no skills I can make a ton of money? I'd also be willing to bet that if money was not required in the world that most of these "passionate" people would not put in the kind of effort they do. They work hard so they can "make it". They want to be able to support themselves and their family. And the ones who actually do it just to make the world a better place? They're the ones working for charities and/or donating most of their income to charity and they're not the ones who are rich. Wall street investor doesn't add anything of value? Providing liquidity to the market is not value? Helping to stabilize prices is not a value? Just because the motivation is money doesn't make it any less valuable. And how is being passionate about figuring out how the economy works (and as a by-product how to exploit it) not considered a passion? In fact in that regard poker and stock trading are almost exactly equivalent. Poker pros don't really add much to the poker economy other than making sure games run for fish, they aren't passionate about anything other than figuring out how to exploit their opponents the most to make money for themselves. But what's wrong with that? Why do you give it such a negative connotation in your post? You act like the average janitor works for love of cleaning toilets rather than just for the money. [/QUOTE]

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