re: #254 WindUpBird

I mainly feel bad for people who just aren’t that bright.

A lot of my success is because I’m really smart. Sure, I read a lot and do things that help me use my smarts, but I was also just born with this capacity most other people don’t have.

It’s radically unfair, to me, that other people who are just as moral, good, hardworking, earnest, etc. as me will never have the opportunity to make as much money as me because they’re just not as bright.

I know plenty of ‘not-bright’ people make plenty of money, but if you take two people who are similar in all ways except one of them is much smarter— that one is generally going to be doing much better.

That’s the biggest privilege I feel that I have. That and being really well-socialized.