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Re:Just Be Rich by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:30AM (#26788769)
"A lot of people who are just as smart and motivated as ..."

Wealth is not synonymous with intelligence. And certainly not with motivation.

A lot of people who are wealthy will never be as smart as ... nor as motivated.

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Re:Just Be Rich by input_sh on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:06AM (#26788996)
I'm always reminded of this quote by Stephen Jay Gould:

> I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

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