From the book Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire:
Although Gates may not have known what he was going to do with his life during high school, he seemed confident that whatever he did would make him a lot of money. He made just such a prediction about his future on several occasions to other students and teachers at Lakeside. In the 11th grade, Gates told his friend Paul Carlson that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 30 years old.
“That is something that might sound like arrogance,” said Carlson. “Some might just say it to brag. Some might say it as if they had the measure of themselves. Bill was in that second category.”
A lot of people think that super genius billionaires like Bill Gates are motivated by their intellectual passion, and money is just a byproduct, but this seems to show that actually Bill Gates’s primary goal in life really was money.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
A lot of people who think they’re smart, eschew such blatant avarice as unseemly, preferring instead to pursue “higher” goals that bring meaning to their life.
However Bill Gates, whose IQ of 170 makes him one of the smartest people in the entire country, is smart enough to realize that whatever you want in life, chance are money can buy it for you.
There’s virtually nothing you could possibly want that money can’t help you buy. You want love? Money can buy you better looks and better clothes, and lavish parties to meet women, and romantic vacations when you find the girl of your dreams.
Want intellectual stimulation? Money can buy you your own research lab, and the ability to hire thousands of people to participate in your studies
Want justice? Money can help you buy media to expose the corrupt and charities to help the poor
Want to pass on your genes? Money allows you to pay countless women to carry your child, and allows you to fund charities devoted to people who look like you.
Want more time? Money allows you to retire early and hire staff to do all your cooking and cleaning
Want beauty and spiritual connection? Money allows a home overlooking the ocean.
There’s a saying that money manages to signify intelligence in even the most unlikely of cases. Someone could have an 8th grade education, and not even be able to string together a sentence, but if they have money, they will come across as shrewd. Meanwhile someone can have a Nobel prize in physics, but if they are poor, people will say “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
People intuitively understand that intelligence is ultimately the mental ability to adapt: To take whatever situation you’re in, and turn it around to your advantage.
And what’s more advantageous than money?
I’m now in my 30s, but when I was a teenager, I had a genetically superior Oriental friend, and when his mother found out I had a part time job, she was impressed I was making money. Yet when my friend asked if he should get a partime job, his mother felt he was better off studying in school.
“Money now, mean nothing,” she said. “Money later, mean… EVERYTHING!”
Pumpkin Person 
“Orientals” make boring “staid” elites, hence the lack of dynamism, influence and superiority found in Western elites.
Regarding Bill Gates: He attended an elite high school with a lot of freedom, where they also allowed him to teach the students about computers. It appears that he was very passionate about it, or else he would not have that privilege.
peepee is a whore.
money can’t buy time…after a certain LOW threshold…like costa rica.
steve jobs and david bowie are dead.
Buying time and buying life span are not exactly the same thing. Two people can die at the same age, yet the rich person doesn’t waste years of his life waiting in line, doing dishes, shoveling the driveway, cooking dinner, buying groceries, cleaning up, mowing the lawn etc. He gets to enjoy every hour of the day & hire others to do the tedium.
the carthusian choir monk has no duty other than prayer and is alone for 18h a day. and is forbidden from speaking with his fellow monks in chapel.
he is buried in an un-identified grave and even if he publishes something his name cannot be known until after his death.
carthusian monks have a life expectancy greater than that of the general population of the developed world not just of men.
carthusian monks have a life expectancy greater than that of the general population of the developed world not just of men.
Good point.
They have a long life because they have no stress. Getting rich is stressful, and the people who are most inclined to pursue wealth are type A personalities which is not healthy. So although I think money is the ultimate advantage in life, I concede that the hoops you have to jump through to make it, sometime negate the benefits.
That’s a major reason why the IQ-money correlation is far from perfect.
what’s the word?
not the ability to tolerate stress, but…
not feeling it in the first place.
it’s like the advantage morning people have…even though morning people have a lower mean IQ than night owls.
this, sociopathy, and a burning desire to get rich are all extremely important ingredients in addition to IQ and luck.
i heard a hobo interviewed a long time ago.
he said, “i’d work for a day and feel like i needed to convalesce for a week.”
i’m not nearly that bad, but i understood.
I suspect there is a correlation between money and sociopathy. I wonder how strong it is, and I wonder if it’s roughly linear through the full range of IQ and normalized income: From homeless to billionaire
Ironically, wealth used to be considered a sign of moral virtue, but that’s changing in the era of extreme Wall Street fraud.
great wealth was never a virtue in itself nor a sign of virtue in christendom and only since 1980 in the US.
most people were very suspicious of the super rich in the early 20th c.
chomsky has noted this.
sociopathy the way i use the word is a necessary accompaniment of elite status, unless you’ve inheritied it.
it is the inability to distinguish between what is “appropriate” and what is right and the inability to distinguish social status from virtue.
in this sense almost every one is a sociopath. and this explains why things like nazi germany and the stalinist soviet union can happen.
two fundamental truths:
1. the norms, conventions, mores, and institutions of a society stand or fall not by the opinions of its members in general but by the opinions of its power elite, which is always a tiny minority.
2. every human society’s power elite is “selected” such that the elite is composed of exactly those people who either:
a. most agree with the status quo, have internalized the ruling ideology….socipaths in my sense of the word.
OR
b. are sociopaths…in the psychiatric sense…who believe nothing and are always faking for their own benefit, that is, those for whom dissembling is as natural as telling the truth.
if you listened to the chomsky vid i posted last, he says…
whatever your native ability, if you think the system you live in is shit you’ll wind up “driving a cab”…and no conspiracy is required…it’s simply the nature of human societies.
chomsky admits that he faked it until he got tenure, but that most people simply can’t endure the bullshit…that he is a rare exception.
and though trump is gross, he’s much less gross than any of the other GOP candidates, because he’s never had to climb the greasy pole and he’s not a bush.
and this because he inherited $600 m and his dad taught him the real estate business.
trump’s opinions are common, but both the mass media and politicians are people who are sociopaths in my sense or the other sense, so his very common opinions are “inappropriate” or even “crazy” for them.
trump is honest.
what you see may be ghastly, but it’s the real thing.
media and politicians are all total fakes.
because he was born so rich trump has had the luxury of being his disgusting self.
but all who never had that luxury?
those who sold their souls to the devil have made it.
the rest haven’t.
this was all expressed in fiction in the tv drama House.
the lead character House has enormous insight into human behavior, yet his colleagues think he lacks “social skills”, “tact”, or even “empathy”.
this is because they are sociopaths of the first type. they have been conditioned just like trained seals to bark or clap when it is expected of them. but this barking and clapping has no meaning for them, they just do it…and can recognize when one they take for a fellow seal isn’t doing it. House sees through this and thus is always behaving inappropriately.
it’s like the difference between a border collie and a standard poodle.
both have very high dog IQs, but the border collie is a dog and the standard poodle is a “human”.
if you don’t believe me, you should meet a standard poodle.
i have dog encyclopedia which claims the poodle’s fore-brain is abnormally large for a dog.
of course even trump has had to lie about being anti-abortion and pro-gun.
and the very idea that money can buy beauty…what a fucking joke.
it can buy you pretty whores, but it can’t make you pretty.
makeup and jewelry and high fashion?
lipstick on a pig…
she’s still a pig.
“clothes make the man…that is…the faggot.”
Of course money can buy looks. Look what it did for Greta Van Susteren:
are you a scientologist too?
the wsj’s house of the year sold for little more than mine would sell, yet my house is a dump in comparison.
even shittier houses sell for much more in sf, boston, honolulu, etc.
must be my zip code is “virtuous”.
NOT.
https://www.yahoo.com/realestate/wsj-house-of-year-2016-is-a-seriously-cool-classic-100414236.html
And…she still looks like she was hit with the ugly stick.
bill gates is a PROLE.
he smells bad and has dandruff and his whole bidness is based on buying dos for $50k.
Yes, BG ripped off the OS from Mr. AppleJobs and called it ProleWin 1,2,3….
and i know…
i’ve spent 35 k USD on my dog’s butt cancer.
and it was all for nought.
he’s gonna die.
think of all the good i could have done for other dogs.
but i had no dog health insurance.
Rich Orientals aren’t charitable, except at Harvard, where their large donations comes across as generosity, masking their inherent nature of corruption, symbolic of 3rd worldism.
I remember reading Hard Drive back in middle school. Good book.
Only WEIRDO whites (this is not a slur against whites, it means Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic, Outbred) pretend that the meaning of life isn’t money (and passing on one’s genes). Everybody else is obsessed with that!
Elite Whites believe money is supposed to be a tool. Non-Whites and poor Whites view money as an end to everything, which is true given the fact that Asian elites and elites from the non-Western world in general, just hoard wealth.
Intuitively ordinary people like you misunderstood everything tard
Nice to see you again too
For a long time, I have detected a certain “spoof” element to this blog. Posts, such as this one, have now completely confirmed my earlier suspicions.
This blog is not meant to be funny, ironic, or satirical.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
“And sometimes it’s a big brown dick!”- George Carlin
What it the perfect net worth? It has to be as much as possible, but as low as it is needed to stay under the radar. As soon as somebody is on the Forbes list, or the media start doing reports about him his freedom is in danger. You can only do legal but crazy things with money when you are not famous.
I guess the perfect net worth is well under 100 million $, but certainly above 10 million.