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From my experience, people with higher social status (and thus money/power) tend on average to be somewhat smarter, but not by a large margin.



A lot of that is correlated with more recreational time, better family lives (probably no one in jail), and higher quality education. This is the same logic the French aristocrats used to justify the oppression of the peasants, reading novels made them "better"




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