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Writer's Block: She's a brainiac on the floor [07 Oct 2010|04:59pm] Would you rather be super-rich or super-smart if you would only be average in the other category? First question listed was submitted by lynsay31. (Follow-up questions, if any, may have been added by LiveJournal.) View 1683 Answers Pros: Super-rich, but average intelligence. One could pay other people to make up for shortcomings. A certain amount of money can buy a certain amount of happiness, plus I think people with average intelligence are probably more well-adjusted and easily amused, so money could make up for the extra stupidity. Cons: Others would take advantage of one (hypothetical rich me) constantly, either those that are smarter or want to think they are smarter, in order to get more money-- like pulling shady deals under the assumption that one would not understand details. On the other hand, being internally rich but outwardly average (and possibly dumb) would be pretty awesome because nobody would give a shit. Also "super-rich" is subjective-- like are these riches adjusted for the present economy constantly? What is currently valuable? etc. Like there are probably situations where guns, lots of guns, and ammo, would be more valuable than money. Or a post-apocalyptic libertarian scenerio where only gold bars are valuable (presumably to knock people over the head with). Or food shortages-- i.e. during wars, canned goods would be immensely valuable... there are times when one would burn money to keep warm because it would worthless otherwise. Pros: Super-smart, but average riches. Those that are in the position of making shit work probably fall into this category. Also a lot of probably brilliant but batshit insane college professors. I think being super-smart brings a certain amount of depression/unhappiness (cons), but then again getting obsessed to certain things to a degree where they can amuse themselves. And besides I'm going to assume "super-smart" here means ingenunity creativity etc, not the lackluster "can't tie my own shoes" kind of useless genius-- plus sometimes being super-smart can make you rich-- and in times of need I'd rather be smart than rich. Besides, there's nothing wrong with being of average income. It would be better than where I'm at now. 1 comment|post comment

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