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I've seen many examples of the equation of rich = smart to which you refer. And in my younger days I had a somewhat similar view. As a working-class guy living in a blue-collar milieu, it seemed only natural to assume that anyone who could accumulate a large fortune had to be pretty darned smart, and a lot smarter than me. Took some 'living' to figure out that wasn't the real difference.

But I've known a lot of guys over time who held that view and never bothered to examine it in any significant way, if at all. Guess it didn't bother them to see themselves as less smart or intelligent than someone else based on the size of their bank account, a point of view I can certainly no longer understand, and haven't for a very long time now.

I'm no genius, but I'm smart enough to know that a lot of rich folks aren't either. If a few more folks like me would wake up to that fact, it might not be as hard to "put these guys in their place" as it might be otherwise, since they might just change their view about how our government kowtows to these people, and why.

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