@ryzeonline
The truth is, society actually prefers dumb and rich to smart and poor. You made a great point about obscurity and exposure but the truth is even in small settings where the ideas of the rich and the ideas of the poor are presented with the same amount of exposure the rich wins most of the time irrespective of the dumbness of their ideas.
The small settings I'm talking about are like groups. Small groups like PTA meetings, neighborhood meetings, church meetings, school meetings and the like. In small groups like these where people just stand up during a meeting and air their opinions equally the opinions of the rich is usually more popular. The reason is because most people are mostly emotional rather than rational. Most people are convinced more by emotions than they are by reason. A rich man is in a great position so the emotions he invokes in people is respect, admiration and a level of trust that this man actually knows what he's doing and he usually gets things right, why not, can't you see he's rich? Can't you see his position?
All these emotions lead people to lean more towards the opinions of rich people. When a rich man opines, people are moved by all the favourable feelings the have towards him and the logicality of his opinion is only left to play a smaller role; many don't even realize why they react this way to rich people's opinions, it happens in the subconscious.
Meanwhile the ideas of poorer people come with the opposite of these emotions which means it comes with negative emotions like disrespect, disgust in some cases, etc. If it doesn't come with all these negative emotions at least it comes with a lack of the emotional appeal richer folks have and so the bulk of the convincing is left for the logicality of their opinions to do and most people like I said earlier are just not good with understanding and following logic.
This is an excellent contribution. I neglected to discuss the power of emotion to affect judgment, as well as society's general lack of skill in emotion-management.
I've talked about how making decisions while emotional can be extremely unproductive with @cynshineonline , and I'm shocked I didn't cover it more in my original post on intelligence, so I'm very glad you emphasized it here.
Fantastic point about 'position' affecting things as well, @nevies , and I really appreciate you adding that to the discussion.
Thanks again! 🙏
Oh, it's all good. You're welcome, man 😃
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