[dtap]

While there a lot of talented people, there are few extremely talented people. It is these extremely talented people who make the huge salaries. I am at a top 5 business school now and you can definitely see the future millionaires.

Generally, there are a lot of people who go into finance and will make $65-70k and never get into the extreme. But there are people who are going to make $200k+ out of undergrad and likely earn millions someday. They are worth it, many already manage their own money in excess of half a mil.

In a class of 300 top students, I think there are 2-3 of these people.

[thetrumanshow]

I kind of see the value of raw talent/intelligence as approaching a limit. Like this graph: http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/acon/GIFs/data_dialog3_...

The commenter's idea seems to sync with this notion, as the really talented people kind of group near the top of the curve. This would mean that they are all intelligent/talented enough to master eachother's job.

I bet there is a great deal of luck involved in the outlier cases... which you seem to be attributing to talent alone.