People who got rich from doing dumb things

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Are runway models and fashion models considered supermodels, or just models? Most of them are ugly as shit.
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I'm not sure about their necessarily being "ugly," but the important thing is that you can virtually see their skeletons under a bright light.
 
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WOULD YOU RATHER WIN THE FIELD'S MEDAL IN SOME ARCANE MATHEMATICS IN 2010 OR BE A TRADER WITH AN AVG IQ (100) THAT'S JUST STUMBLED OVER AN "EDGE" THAT YOU *THINK* WILL MAKE YOU RICH EVENTUALLY?

answer truthfully :D
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Most people here think they either have already stumbled on an edge, or are about to, and will go on to fame and fortune in due course. Especially those specimens with sub-prime IQs. Not that it doesn't happen. Just that, on balance, the demonstrably dimmer bulbs seem to have the most to say about it.

And so, between the two choices available, I'll go with the arcane.
 
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WOULD YOU RATHER WIN THE FIELD'S MEDAL IN SOME ARCANE MATHEMATICS IN 2010 OR BE A TRADER WITH AN AVG IQ (100) THAT'S JUST STUMBLED OVER AN "EDGE" THAT YOU *THINK* WILL MAKE YOU RICH EVENTUALLY?

answer truthfully :D
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Well, you can't compare the two. One already succeeded and the other is still struggling.

What if instead the mathematician is close to winning the Nobel prize?
 
You should add "stock traders" to that list.


Quote from Pension_Admin:

From what I have seen, there are quite many rich peoples who got rich from doing things that seem dumb.

Examples:

People got rich by throwing their bodies around and acting like fools - wrestlers

People got rich by being weird and display her bad fashion sense - Lady GaGa

People got rich by throwing/kicking a ball around - most sport players

People got rich by telling people how to be successful (especially when he wasn't successful to begin with) - Tony Robbins

People got rich by making bad movies - Michael Bay

One thing they all have in common: They all share their dumb things with the world.

Please add to the list if you have more.

Thanks!

PA
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Quote from Pension_Admin:

Well, you can't compare the two. One already succeeded and the other is still struggling.

What if instead the mathematician is close to winning the Nobel prize?
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WOULD YOU RATHER BE DUMB AS A STUMP BUT RICH, OR "POOR" IN COMPARISON BUT BRILLIANT AND ENJOYING THE COMPREHENSION OF LIFE IN ALL THE RICH NUANCE THAT YOUR BRILLIANCE BRINGS ONLY YOU?

choose :D
 
Quote from Pension_Admin:

Seriously, I am impress with Lady GaGa. She know how to use the paparazzi to get herself to fame and fortune. She also know how to distract them with the outragous fashion so that the paparazzi won't focus too much on other aspects of her life.

She is definitely a genuis. No doubt about it.

PA
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She is actually a he. Post op tranny, in case many of you cannot figure it out. That is what "pokerface" is about.
 
Quote from killthesunshine:

WOULD YOU RATHER BE DUMB AS A STUMP BUT RICH, OR "POOR" IN COMPARISON BUT BRILLIANT AND ENJOYING THE COMPREHENSION OF LIFE IN ALL THE RICH NUANCE THAT YOUR BRILLIANCE BRINGS ONLY YOU?

choose :D
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

--Socrates

(Perhaps a bit extreme, but you get the idea.)
 
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investment bankers. if that isn't enough, and you want an example, then how about the .con bubble when some bright spark in a bank decided to value these non-profitable web based companies based on the number of mouse clicks they received! remember that?
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Hmm, not a wonder that you think Lady Gaga is some kind of genius.

You should probably go research how the dotcom bubble was orchestrated. It's not because some top investment banks were dumb enough to come up with these valuations. It was well planned scheme involving a lot more than some silly valuation models.
 
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How is a model different from a supermodel? (Other than the pay, of course.)
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Supermodels can fly. Or at least float due to weightlessness.
 
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