most people today hold a curious implicit view that that money doesn't imply brains whatsoever in fact, the opposite! in their view, getting rich is about exploitation, luck, and being stupid with risk not sure how this happened but society now views being "not rich" (poor, or even just normal) as more virtuous than being rich as if the absence of money is evidence of purity this might be largely driven by the amount of idiots that got rich in crypto for simply being early or the amount of criminals that got rich from crypto but this is imo one of the worst and most dangerous developments happening right now because it ignores the median case for the extreme, it is a textbook epistemic reasoning error while luck and exploitation no doubt play a role, markets remain one of humanities' least worst ways of keeping score not making money is not a virtue refusing to learn or attempt to create value in a way that doesn’t compromise your principles is not a virtue either