Jack Welch thinks the latest jobs report was cooked, and Donald Trump agrees with him. Trump also thinks that the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez needs drugs to play better. Why do we care what these people think?
Making money is a skill and there is no doubt that men like Welch and Trump are geniuses at it. Their financial intelligence far exceeds that of the average person. Intelligence in everything else? Perhaps not so much. Yet because our society worships money to such an extreme degree, people like Welch and Trump are sought after to provide their thoughts on a whole host of topics of which they know nothing. We somehow equate financial genius with just pure genius.
To make my point, let's take the case of another skilled genius - Alex Rodriguez. In baseball, A-Rod is one of the best players ever. His baseball IQ is way above the average person's. He has many adoring fans (as well as detractors). Why aren't we asking him what he thinks of the jobs report? Or the recent Presidential debate? Is it that we recognize that baseball genius doesn't qualify him as an expert on everything else going on in the world?
Bottom line - I don't give a shit what Jack Welch and Donald Trump think.
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