Clever CUKkers

[Mich the Tester]

People who chase wealth will never be happy as there is always someone wealthier than you and while you are chasing the illusion of happiness being found in wealth, your life will pass you buy. I have a few friends who like to display the illusion of wealth by buying the most expensive care they can afford, drinking in the most expensive bars, while having to make sacrifices in other areas of their lives and being unable to save for the future. I suspect it is these people who end up depressed as they are unable to reach the unrealistic aspirations they have set themselves.

Financially I'm OK and happy enough, but I need something to strive for; sport provides that for me. It's also realistic as I am physically stronger than I am cunning.

[sasguru]

People who chase wealth will never be happy as there is always someone wealthier than you and while you are chasing the illusion of happiness being found in wealth, your life will pass you buy. I have a few friends who like to display the illusion of wealth by buying the most expensive care they can afford, drinking in the most expensive bars, while having to make sacrifices in other areas of their lives and being unable to save for the future. I suspect it is these people who end up depressed as they are unable to reach the unrealistic aspirations they have set themselves.

Well clearly chasing wealth for its own sake is not very intelligent.
As is accepting genteel relative poverty when you can do better, thus severely limiting your choices.*

*it should be said that it's different if you're single - I think if you have a family your choices should reflect your obligations to them.

[Mich the Tester]

So to summarise you're rich (in your terms) and don't do very much. What's your point?

Well, I don't think your criteria of 'rich without doing much' really covers it; I know a couple of people from school who live in great luxury but who are dim. They inherited what they describe as 'half a county of farmland' and live off the rental proceeds after their father very wisely appointed a farm manager and gave the two young chaps meaningless but important sounding positions in the family business. Very nice chaps in their own way, but unfathomably dim and neither would be able to earn an income or manage a simple one room, one person household, never mind an estate. Are they clever? I don't think so but I think their father very charitably and perceptively ensured that their wives and kids won't have to suffer from their lack of brainpower.

But maybe they're outliers.

[sasguru]

Well, I don't think your criteria of 'rich without doing much' really covers it; I know a couple of people from school who live in great luxury but who are dim. They inherited what they describe as 'half a county of farmland' and live off the rental proceeds after their father very wisely appointed a farm manager and gave the two young chaps meaningless but important sounding positions in the family business. Very nice chaps in their own way, but unfathomably dim and neither would be able to earn an income or manage a simple one room, one person household, never mind an estate. Are they clever? I don't think so but I think their father very charitably and perceptively ensured that their wives and kids won't have to suffer from their lack of brainpower.

But maybe they're outliers.

Maybe you should be in the fick thread, you seem to have lost the point of this one
So there are some rich but dim types in the world, what's your point exactly?
We were discussing what intelligence is AFAIK - and finding it quite hard to pin down, IMO.

[d000hg]

But if academics condemn their families to live on the pittances they earn purely because they have fun using their brains, maybe they're being selfish rather than smart or intelligent?

Caring about people and being intelligent are totally separate things. You could be a certified genius but not give two hoots about your family.

Although the person who marries such a person and has a family with them is perhaps the dim one in this scenario

[sasguru]

Caring about people and being intelligent are totally separate things. You could be a certified genius but not give two hoots about your family.

Although the person who marries such a person and has a family with them is perhaps the dim one in this scenario

I think you're confusing being clever with being intelligent. Academics are usually very clever, quite often they can be unintelligent. I think IQ tests should be renamed CQ tests, since that is what they narrowly measure.

[Zippy]

And don't forget Faqqer.

+1

[SimonMac]

Don't forget us ladies!

I think you have the title as smartest shemale on the site, which is ironic given the mess the op left you in down there its anything but smart and tidy!

[northernladyuk]

I think you have the title as smartest shemale on the site, which is ironic given the mess the op left you in down there its anything but smart and tidy!

And that's why you always pay The Lady that little bit extra.

[Mich the Tester]

Sociopath, borderline psychopath?

WHS and I think some are more than 'borderline' psychopath.