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Intelligence is a capacity, not a trait. You don't get opportunities in life simply because you're smart, you get them because you've built upon your intellige

• ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
  "Inherited wealth exists irrespective of effort." I look at it from a pan-generational perspective. If the correlation of your habits/traits/capacities with those of your progeny was purely random, then yes, your progeny has lucked into wealth. What if I assume a significantly greater-than-chance correlation? Then, your offspring can be considered to be minor perturbations of yourself, now attempting to continue success in the same or other fields. If, you agree, that these capacities are inherited, then you must answer why giving these lucky offspring an advantage is bad.
• nihilocrat 18y ago
  > You don't get opportunities in life simply because you're smart, I really wish I knew this earlier. For a significant part of my adolescence, even through part of college, I believed intelligence alone would prove your worth. Now, I feel like people think you're actually dumb if you don't have a list of major accomplishments in your wake; you tend to get that feeling when interviewing for a job.
  • davi 18y ago
    Sounds like you're getting to an age where people expect your intelligence to have panned out productively in some way or another.