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I'm guessing a long islander with enough money to travel to Europe wouldn't fall into those categories.
success is not positively correlated to intelligence. past a certain point it is negatively correlated. see: the richest man in the world right now.
I know people from that area. If they come from old money they tend to live off interest. 1mil give 40k at 4% and if house is paid off. Then than pays for the taxes on home and some other utilities. Then add the pension most people got back then and you're golden.
Correct. These people were educated professionals. Specifically, one was an engineer.
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
There are many types of intelligence, though. So when I hear someone dismiss another as simply “stupid”, I’m sceptical of them too.