"My argument is that above average and even extraordinary intelligence have no correlation to money making." Well you're objectively wrong. Go to your national

"My argument is that above average and even extraordinary intelligence have no correlation to money making." Well you're objectively wrong. Go to your national data office and look at income vs education (using education as a proxy for intelligence is not perfect but works OK enough for this purpose). You will see strong correlations between the two. (not perfectly linear, and not perfectly correlated, but strong enough to be not random). Look at any data set of reasonably stable and free countries that have these two data points, and you will find the same. "Smart people live in poverty all the time." Anecdote != data.