My father and many of his friends thought financial success meant you were smart. They would call a rich person a really smart person. I didn’t see that. We could talk a long time about it and remain in different positions, bias. Lot of contemporary popular music is not interesting to me but that’s precisely why it is interesting to many of the people who enjoy it. That’s my bias, same bias as theirs. Totally fair, yet isn’t the energy behind choosing sides more suspicious than the side?
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With financial wealth comes the opportunity to feed the mind. For most, the struggle to make ends meet occupies 90% of their existence. Working night shift in a factory, roofing in July, etc., leaves one exhausted and depleted. Hard to feed the mind when the body is on the brink of collapse. One who is truly wealthy, (monetarily), is afforded the luxury of experiencing higher education, art, literature, etc., which leads to a level of awareness that one associates with being ‘smart.’ It is perhaps from this perspective that the association of being ‘wealthy’ with ‘smart’ is derived.