People who got rich from doing dumb things

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

--Socrates

(Perhaps a bit extreme, but you get the idea.)

 

How is a model different from a supermodel? (Other than the pay, of course.)

 

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.

 

Supermodels can fly. Or at least float due to weightlessness.