Also, intelligence maybe lets you pick out a pareto isosurface in job-space, of which money is only one dimension. At higher isosurfaces, the relative value of

Also, intelligence maybe lets you pick out a pareto isosurface in job-space, of which money is only one dimension. At higher isosurfaces, the relative value of money shrinks, because material needs are met, because of the sublinearity of utility-vs-money, etc. If you condition on people who make $X+/-eps per year (fixing one dimension in the optimization space), probably there will still be a strong correlation between intelligence and other desirable factors (status, fulfillment, etc).