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Originally posted by bilmore
No, I mean that the measure of success in our society is wealth, and there are a lot of very smart academics who really resent the fact that they are not valued higher than people who are, in their minds, dumber than them. There's a resentment that their own perceived intellectual gifts don't translate into that monetary measure of success - that our society fails to reward the right factors.
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Okay. But can you apply this analysis to what we're actually talking about? It may be true that people generally dislike when a rich kid gets richer when he hasn't a brain in his head. Do you think our society does reward the right factors? Is athleticism more important than intellect? Is an inheritance better than a hard-earned degree? Can you relate your statement back to what we're talking about somehow?
TM
