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Kinda dumb for rich people to brag about education when education is directly tied to wealth.
Yes, wealth allows for easier education. But it's also just because wealthy people tend to be more educated because that's how they got wealthy (Lopez example notwithstanding). They value education and prioritize it.
Do you seriously believe wealth is an indicator of intelligence? We have so many counter examples.
No, it's an indicator of education levels. But cause and effect there is blurred. Intelligence can be masked by lack of education.
Right, are you seriously trying to tell me Donal fucking Trump got to where he is bcz he is intelligent?
Laughs in Ph.D.
Pretty sure the majority of J Lo’s wealth comes from her assets, not education
Yes. That's the notwithstanding part. That said, I think someone involved in any pop star's success is smart and educated where it counts.
another dumb take. they just hire actual smart people to analyze the situation and data.
anyone with $$$$$ to throw around can do that.
Yes. But they have to be clever enough to get to the point where they have enough money to throw around. And they have to wise enough to figure out who to hire, who to trust and then how to actually use the information. Of course it's sometimes dumb luck, I'm sure. But either way, there's then educated people making good money in the deal, which makes my point as well.
Yea, the wealthy people I keep seeing online sure seem very educated.
Some of them might be - they know how to make money off idiots by acting idiotic, but in an very controlled specific way.
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Yeah, sorry. Just an ounce of truth that bites. I couldn't help it.
No, Donald Trump is proof that you can just buy yourself a degree. That has nothing to do with being educated and everything to do with higher learning is a scam in the U.S.
Yes some higher learning is a scam, and some is just for the contacts one acquires. Trump, as awful as he is, does seem to be objectively successful, so he's not really such a great example. I'd love to just blame his inheritance on his success but clearly he has some ability to raise support from idiots. There are certainly higher learning paths that are very real, like medical, engineering, lawl, some humanities, and some commerce.
You've obviously never talked to a business major for any length of time. He has confidence, which is what the "Con" in conartist comes from.
He knows how to con people. All his actual business ventures fail, by design probably
No, they value the idea of education, and the image of them that it projects.
Honestly, that's exactly an uneducated view of being educated. It's really not about image projection, except where it comes to getting a job and / or financing for business. An educated person learns the actual value of real education. An uneducated person sees the educated as elite snobs who have a better life quality; but this better quality of life comes in part from the education.
art is full of nepo babies at the moment and none of them create anything that's going to be as enduring as the worst michael jackson song.
really dumb take, no offense.
if they were 'intelligent' they'd be able to do something besides grift. even a homeless bum could grift in the capitalist system if you gave them a few mil and a 10 minute lecture.
If I said 'intelligent', sorry I didn't mean that. I'm talking about 'education'. And no I think giving an uneducated person a couple of million would usually lead to them losing it pretty quickly.
For that to actually be true, Elon musk couldn't be the richest person on the planet. He's a massive fucking moron
I'm very not an Elon fan. But didn't he do theoretical physics at uni? That's not really a dumb dumb degree.
Yea dude didn't you see on tiktok all the dumb rich people? That is reflective of reality not reality itself! Why didn't life just make me instant rich I wish I was rich also rich people are a different species who should die.
Tictoc might not be the best way to understand how the world works.