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A guy found a magic lamp and a Genie popped out and offered him infinite wisdom or infinite wealth. He asks for wisdom, the genie grants it and disappears in a puff of smoke. As the smoke clears the guys says “aw crap, I should have took the money”
When I was young, I was poor. But after decades of hard work, I’m not young anymore.
Medieval people had the “divine right of kings.” Modern people have the “must be brilliant to be that rich” fallacy.
what?
If he had a choice between being smart or being poor, he would choose to be smart.
i don’t understand
Sounds like you made a poor choice.
Definitely
If I were to choose between having a positive quality or having a negative quality, I would have the positive quality
That makes sense, because then you are smart, and with hard work and dedication, you can become poor as well. But if you choose poverty, there’s no amount of hard work and dedication that will increase your intelligence.
Does anyone actually choose to be poor if being smart is the other option? Feels like you’d already have to not be very smart to get the choice wrong.
Drug and alcohol abusers tend to end up with just that double move.