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To: VFD who wrote (19011)	8/30/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Respond to of 64865

VFD: how highly correlated are wealth and intelligence (i.e. for middle class and up). I doubt the correlation is very high at all. Now ruthless/driven and wealth or BSing and wealth, now I imagine there is good correlation there. The most intelligent people in the world, given that a threshold of wealth in necessary, I would hazard a guess, are definitely not the wealthiest. In addition, I do no believe that today's society rewards intelligence equitably. If they did Bill Joy would be worth $100 billion and Bill Gates might be worth a few million.