Actually, the rich are almost always smarter than about 4/5 of people and less smart than about 1/5, because the top fraction of the population tends to find the activities involved in commerce and finance mind-numbingly dull, and go into academic pursuits or technical areas that while lucrative will not make one rich.
Most of us who have chosen the academic route in life, are alas, while very smart tend to not be very wise and assume that what is good for an academician whose love of particle physics, botany, Medieval history, Georgian architecture, . . . or in my case mathematics is such that so long as they are provided with a reasonably comfortable living they will pursue their love without regard for further compensation is good for everyone. Thus academicians tend to foolishly assume that having some fiduciary look after ones material needs on one’s behalf would be a good thing for everyone and end up being socialists and looking down on people who pursue commerce. This view is of course just as deadly to the prosperity of the nation and the world as running a university as if it were a commercial enterprise is to the pursuit of knowledge.
That was Mark Steyn-caliber commentary.
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This description fits what I refer to as university inhabitants. I find a strong sense among them that they are not of this planet and humans with "normal" neurological makeup are merely a bother. Aspergers running wild.