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by Danihan 3088 days ago
Underrated post, completely agree. There have been several times when I wasn't doing so well financially and I wondered -- if I'm this smart (not to be cocky, but top 1% at least) and struggling, how are other people making it at all?

The answer is, they take far fewer risks than I do and rarely mess up. And when they do mess up it's years of hard work to recover.

But yeah, there is definitely some social Darwinism currently at play in regards to intelligence.