[emschlr]

Came here to say exactly this!

Most smart people do not care about becoming rich. Some of them do. But most of them do not. Most smart people I have met care about honing their skills and becoming better at what they do which is exactly what led them to being smart in the first place. Moreover not all kinds of smartness translate to more $$. The market rewards only certain kinds of smartness (computer skills, law skills, medical skills, etc.)