IQ are waste of time. They don't put food on the table. University academics don't make that much cash. Too bad. If they so clever then why aren't they rich?
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They don't put food on the table. University academics don't make that much cash. Too bad.
You are partly right, it is those people who have to get a job in fast food restaurants because of their lack of IQ/Education (and don´t have the chance to get a better job because of this) who put food on the table.
Average earnings by level of education (Men, 2004):
21,659 (< 9th grade)
So apparently a doctorate will earn you twice as much as a college education. So if Scarlets79 tries really, really hard (s)he can potentially earn half what I do.
Now if you excuse me I have to go put food on the table. Today it's fresh salad with lobster and a 'champagne' souffle.
IQ are waste of time. They don't put food on the table.
Au contraire ! I have used my IQ of 146 to fuel a highly successful 20+ year career in sales. Thanks to my fiendish intelligence (and a humble "just folks" demeanor) I have been able to consistently find methods of working around obstacles in order to meet (and usually exceed by 10%--30%) my monthly numbers.
University academics don't make that much cash.
Sadly this is true; but someone has to teach the six-toed wall-eyed aberrations you'll eventually be pumping out with the aid of some poor fundie girl with low self-esteem.
If they so clever then why aren't they rich?
It's not always about money, douche. Reframe your question and you'll see why it carries no real weight insofar as supporting your point is concerned. "If cops are so tough then why aren't they rich?" "If firefighters are so brave then why aren't they rich?"
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University academics don't make that much cash. Too bad. If they so clever then why aren't they rich?
That IQ of mine, combined with two university degrees landed me a great job working for the LOFAR project, earning a very nice (Read three times average) income.
So, what does stocking at wallmart get you these days?
EDIT: at the current exchange rate, that would be $ 145.000 a year.
"IQ are waste of time. They don't put food on the table"
Someday I am going to hunt you down, read you that comment, and run you over in an electric car, which I will only be able to afford because I went to college.
"If they so clever then why aren't they rich?"
They are, you're just too stupid to notice. As an example, I present all the high-tech people in the computer industry.
Morons didn't make the Core 2 Duo processor.
I'm still working on my graduate degree, but I don't exactly 'plan' on being rich. I want to teach college level chemistry. I do it not for the money, but for the love of learning, and seeing the proverbial light-bulb going off in a student's eyes.
That to me is worth more than making billions and not being happy. I think a lot of college professors (not all granted there 'are' some who fall into the 'Those who can't, teach' category) feel the same way.
While IQ isn't really a meaningful measure of anything (IQ tests don't describe or measure an empirical or scalar phenomenon, are horrendously biased in terms of class/nationality/dialect/gender/etc., and so on), intellectual work (whether by academics or others) is immensely useful. Where else does Scarlets79 think public-domain research is done?
"University academics don't make that much cash."
This I have to disagree, partially by pointing out university get millions of dollars a year on investment.
And, in order to actually navigate the complicated twists and turns of the financial market, you need an adept mind and, GUESS WHAT, a bachelor's degree in finance, which requires a good level of IQ and lots of hard work.
I know, because I'm working on one.
Hey, at least they do something useful with their lives.
And some of them do make quite a lot of money.
I make as much money as I need, and twice what I earned before I got a bit more education.
Cleverness is rewarding in and of itself.
@Scarlets79
If they so clever then why aren't they rich? Daniel Mockridge once asked that question of Edward Nygma (aka, The Riddler). He didn’t like the answer.
If they so clever then why aren't they rich?
Perhaps they are clever enough to understand that life is about far more than just a ceaseless, almost robotic accumulation of resources. Or maybe, they invest their savings wisely, instead of showing it of by wasting it on bling.
I consider myself fairly rich. I have a job that pays what I need, a loving husband, a great family, a large house with a lovely garden, and two cuddly cats. I live so close to my work that I can take the bike, but I still have the forest on the other side of the street from my house. I can buy expensive food produce when I want, and I buy a lot of Fairtrade and environmentally friendly stuff. Plus, my English is much better than yours, even though it's probably your first but my second language.
So no, neither IQ nor educations are a waste of time.
I am not training to become a scientist to be rich - indeed, such an idea is kind of alien to me. The main rewards would be feeding my curiosity and increasing humanity's knowledge. Not that I would actually want to be rich, I would be completely content with a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. My joys outside of science would come from family and leisure, not from wealth. Money is not an end, just a mean.
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