Was IQ ever meant to be a measure of financial success? Or rather, did anybody, at any time, ever think that the “smarter” people were the more financially suc

Was IQ ever meant to be a measure of financial success? Or rather, did anybody, at any time, ever think that the “smarter” people were the more financially successful? I know I never thought that or observed that anybody else appeared to think that. Being “smart” meant that you were (under the just-world hypothesis) guaranteed a certain level of comfort: you’d end up with an office job where you say all day in an air conditioned office rather than breaking your back under the hot sun, but the super-successful types were either (depending on your biases) the ruthlessly selfish or the risk-takers.