Why Don't They Call You a Genius? You Don't Have a Billion Dollars - CounterPunch.org

If you have a lot of money, one potent strain within American political folklore avows, you must have a lot of smarts. Or, as the classic putdown puts it, “if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” By this folkloric yardstick, America’s really rich — the wealthy, for instance, who fill the just-relea...

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