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> Large amounts of money seem to attract smart people. I wonder if the author meant the converse, that smart people seem to attract large amounts of money.
by chmaynard 4y ago
> Large amounts of money seem to attract smart people.
I wonder if the author meant the converse, that smart people seem to attract large amounts of money.
- bell-cot 4y agoMy kinda-cynical read is closer to "just as powerful kings of old attracted a clever-sounding crowd of courtiers, counselors, priests, philosophers, and such, so do large quantities of money today attract a clever-sounding crowd...".
- BizarroLand 4y agoYou would think that universities would be the richest places on the planet then. There area few that are in the running but most of the money in the world is not in academics, so raw intelligence cannot be the only money attracting factor.