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Vallerina

Dumb and rich or smart and poor?

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Which would you rather be? Many people make fun of (insert random celebrity here) for being so dumb, but maybe they ease their low-iq pains by eating a gourmet breakfast-in-bed that their personal chef prepared for them.

Sure, if you're smart, you have the option to eventually get to the financial status that many rich, pretty celebrities are at, but it would be nice to be a 21 year old multi-millionaire.

Personally, I'd go with smart and poor. If you're dumb and rich, you're probably too dumb to keep that money for long.
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Rich or poor, smart or stupid doesn't matter. I just want to be happy ;)
Everything else is superficial. Everybody envies the happy :)

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Having never been dumb and rich, that would be my answer. For stress reduction alone - who cares how hard it is to handle all that money when you have enough to pay someone to do it for you? That's way less stress than deciding which utility bill gets paid this month.

And think about it - if you're poor, how smart can you really be? I mean, how hard can it be to get rich since all those stupid people seem to be able to do it? Unless of course you have a moral objection to getting rich, in which case it is understandable that you'd choose to be poor.

It's too early in the morning to be asking such deep questions, Val. :P

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Smart and poor, hands down. Being intelligent provides a kind of wealth that far outweighs the creature comforts money can buy.



What if you are too dumb to know the difference - but rich enough to not care if you
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I'm already smart and poor....




This sounds like another way of saying...=college student...

I think in the end, I would prefer to be smart and poor than making my money as an actor and being dumb and rich...B|


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Dumb and rich. Being smart just means you recognize more things to worry about. I'd rather be dumb, not care about issues, and have money to satisfy my stupid cravings.


You make a very good point. I change my mind. I want to be dumb and rich but smart enough to get someone to manage my money to make sure that I'm still rich when I'm the old, crazy woman with 50 cats.
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Smart and poor, no wait, dumb and rich, oh I can't decide. I do however take exception to this:

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I mean, how hard can it be to get rich since all those stupid people seem to be able to do it?



You're really asking this in a society where we pay more money to 18 year olds who can throw a ball through a hoop than we do to people who study for 8+ years in order to save the lives of others (doctors)?

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definitly smart and poor. I'd rather have intelligence then to be rich and not know anything:S
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So, who is the smart one? The guy studying for 8 years to make less money, or the guy throwing the ball through the hoop for millions?



Kinda good point, but this assumes that the one studying for 8 years could simply choose to throw the ball through the hoop. Of course, he could go to school for 7 years, be lawyer and be the 18 yr old's agent. I was just pointing out that given our priorities it's a lot easier to get rich if you are born with ludicrously good looks or a high percentage of fast twitch muscles than it is being born with a high functioning brain.

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