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Intelligence makes it much easier to decipher the increasingly complex and confusing choices that we must make in life. Whether a person is choosing to go into debt, choose a financial plan, or find creative ways to make money, the intelligent person will be far more resourceful in getting information and managing it in order to come to a decision. While a rich person who is unintelligent may have expensive and competent advisers for complicated matters, that person is depending on the honesty, reliability, and competence of others.

Intelligence helps us to learn from our mistakes. If we can't even figure out that we have made a mistake, then we are doomed to repeat the mistake, again and again. While the rich may hire intelligent individuals to help them, no amount of help can prevent the making or repetition of all bad decisions.

Each time we make a mistake and find a way to deal with the consequences, intelligence helps us to develop ways of preventing repeated mistakes. An unintelligent rich person will never learn the entire process if the hired help has done all of the thinking and has to limit discussion to the easiest to digest concepts.

Finally, intelligence allows us to make our lives richer in an infinite variety of ways. While we might not live in a palace, we can devise ways to make our hovels look like palaces. While we might not have great things, we can take on the wisdom to appreciate what we do have.

While the rich, but unintelligent, may have access to the most prominent and powerful individuals in religion, sciences, public life, and in the arts; Intelligent people can, themselves, become prominent and powerful through lifetimes of education and demonstrated excellence.

Intelligent people have a larger variety ways to enhance their spiritual, intellectual, artistic and personal lives. Intelligence allows for advances in reading, writing, having great conversations, mastering forms of artistic expression, and pondering the great questions of life. Lack of money forces intelligence to develop when people make ways to make things, or to live without them. Just having the money to purchase the resources simply gets the need or want satisfied while developing the skills to make things adds another element of satisfaction through accomplishment.

Many individuals who have both intelligence and money have demonstrated that they can use both to live full and happy lives. Many individuals who do not have intelligence benefit from money in order to have things done for them that are beyond their capacities, and they can live happy lives, too.

Given a choice, intelligence is the best one. Given a dream, both would be lovely.

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