• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    i knew a couple of start up people.

    a lot of people involve are already rich. they don’t need pay and they are basically gambling on the payday in equity.

    they also tend to have a delusional sense of how important they are doing. i once went out with someone who was just trying to clone grubhub or whatever, but without any car delivery as some ‘eco’ version of it. they were not a smart person. probably a talented dev though.

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      business people and finance people, in my experience are not smart people.

      the smartest people ive met are, you probably guessed, scientists: physicists for book smarts and a broad overall intelligence, but sociologists, social psychologists.

      being very confident is negatively correlated with intelligence and wisdom as ive seen in the world, and all it takes to buy for a dollar and sell for two is not having a strong moral compass and being unduly confident

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        pretty much.

        but i’ve met plenty of stupid scientists and psychologists. usually when they try to apply their expertise to other areas where it doesn’t apply.