Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
I don't think one necessarily leads, or should lead, to the other. Rich people are rich because they have been fortunate, greedy and selfish: it is very rarely a question of logical skills. Though obfuscation skills can come in handy.

Being not rich is your power in commentary. You really should use it.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 17th, 2010 at 12:54:51 PM EST
[ Parent ]
We also rarely describe emotional skills, manipulation skills, and general modeling of other minds as intelligence. "Playing the game" requires these skills and the will to use them to your own ends. Without them you draw a salary at best - which means you are shut out of the big money.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Wed Mar 17th, 2010 at 02:31:19 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:

Occasional Series