huge_clock, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Except IQ is one of the largest predictors of wealth. as well as certain personality traits. (Openness, Consciousness and extraversion). Also this might shock you but as you move up in percentile income your average hours worked goes up

Obviously some people inherit wealth, people win the lottery, and there’s even a lot of evidence the correlations above start to fall apart at the very top end of the distribution implying some degree of luck. But to explain away every single person that’s rich is just someone who got lucky is not living in reality.