Maybe not dumb, but plenty of below-average intelligence. Quoth PG: > One of the most valuable things my father taught me is an old Yorkshire saying: where th

Maybe not dumb, but plenty of below-average intelligence. Quoth PG: > One of the most valuable things my father taught me is an old Yorkshire saying: where there's muck, there's brass. Meaning that unpleasant work pays. And more to the point here, vice versa. Work people like doesn't pay well, for reasons of supply and demand. The most extreme case is developing programming languages, which doesn't pay at all, because people like it so much they do it for free. There are more reliable ways to get rich than the way that we go about it on this forum. It's just that they're unpleasant enough that most people would prefer to stay poor. Construction contracting is a good example.