Being Rich Does Not Imply Being Smart (Especially When One is Born Into Wealth)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-02-22 15:34:47 UTC
- Modified: 2020-02-22 15:34:47 UTC
Ruthlessness is not brilliance
!['I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years,' 1994 and '[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time,' 2004](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/gates-genius.jpg)
Summary: Presenting the 'genius' (college dropout, but that does not matter when the yardstick of wisdom is wealth alone), with his own predictions overlaid on top of his photo from the show of Bloomberg (another 'genius' whose supposed brilliance is measured using money alone)
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