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[–] 153 points 5 months ago (33 children)

Kinda dumb for rich people to brag about education when education is directly tied to wealth.

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  • [+] -71 points 5 months ago (32 children)

    Yes, wealth allows for easier education. But it's also just because wealthy people tend to be more educated because that's how they got wealthy (Lopez example notwithstanding). They value education and prioritize it.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Pretty sure the majority of J Lo’s wealth comes from her assets, not education

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  • [+] -11 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Yes. That's the notwithstanding part. That said, I think someone involved in any pop star's success is smart and educated where it counts.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    another dumb take. they just hire actual smart people to analyze the situation and data.

    anyone with $$$$$ to throw around can do that.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago

    Yes. But they have to be clever enough to get to the point where they have enough money to throw around. And they have to wise enough to figure out who to hire, who to trust and then how to actually use the information. Of course it's sometimes dumb luck, I'm sure. But either way, there's then educated people making good money in the deal, which makes my point as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    I think you missed the joke there buddy.

    Yes, of course she was advised by some pretty smart people. But at the end of the day, she had the product they needed to sell.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    I saw it. But plenty of other people have great ass ets and don't suc ceed in becoming pop stars.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    No, Donald Trump is proof that you can just buy yourself a degree. That has nothing to do with being educated and everything to do with higher learning is a scam in the U.S.

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Yes some higher learning is a scam, and some is just for the contacts one acquires. Trump, as awful as he is, does seem to be objectively successful, so he's not really such a great example. I'd love to just blame his inheritance on his success but clearly he has some ability to raise support from idiots. There are certainly higher learning paths that are very real, like medical, engineering, lawl, some humanities, and some commerce.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You've obviously never talked to a business major for any length of time. He has confidence, which is what the "Con" in conartist comes from.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And con artists are usually quite well educated. Maybe not in an academic sense, but in an understanding people way. I feel trump isn't really that tho; his con is being an arrogant bully and the inheritance he started with makes that work enough somehow.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I know con artists in real life. They are not educated. They just speak fast and make up ideas that laymen wont call them out on. When they unknowing try that on someone who has a background in the specific field, they fall apart or get angry. A lot of conartists don't even know they're doing it because they've been doing it for so long, they've conned themselves.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Do you seriously believe wealth is an indicator of intelligence? We have so many counter examples.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    No, it's an indicator of education levels. But cause and effect there is blurred. Intelligence can be masked by lack of education.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Right, are you seriously trying to tell me Donal fucking Trump got to where he is bcz he is intelligent?

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    They value education and prioritize it.

    No, they value the idea of education, and the image of them that it projects.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly, that's exactly an uneducated view of being educated. It's really not about image projection, except where it comes to getting a job and / or financing for business. An educated person learns the actual value of real education. An uneducated person sees the educated as elite snobs who have a better life quality; but this better quality of life comes in part from the education.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    art is full of nepo babies at the moment and none of them create anything that's going to be as enduring as the worst michael jackson song.

    really dumb take, no offense.

    if they were 'intelligent' they'd be able to do something besides grift. even a homeless bum could grift in the capitalist system if you gave them a few mil and a 10 minute lecture.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yea dude didn't you see on tiktok all the dumb rich people? That is reflective of reality not reality itself! Why didn't life just make me instant rich I wish I was rich also rich people are a different species who should die.

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