your funny kid. Your right, I didn't get the problem. I'll go back and re-read. Thanks. BTW, your on the wrong thread.
If chess players are so smart why they are not millionaires/billionaires?
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No problem, carry on.
If lottery players are so poor and maybe smart but does that qualify to be a millionaire?
If you want your life turn to riches you need to be a combination of asshole + jew = zuckerberg
Wow, what an ignorant, racist comment.
Let me put some financial perspective on the original question. If you win the Miss America, you get a new car, and $100,000. If you win the Alaskan Sled Dog Iditarod Race, you get a new car, and $50,000. If you win an Olympic event, you get a medal. If you win Publishers Clearance House, you get, $52,000 a yr, for life. So I'm looking for a female, gold medalist, miss american, who raises dogs, and reads magazines in her spare time. What more would a poor losing chess player need??
If billionaires are so smart why arent more of them Grandmasters
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Petrosianic wrote:
intelligence is skill specfic. chess players come from all walks of life. karpov is a billionaire.
Google says Karpov's net worth is $145 million. I don't see how he could be a billionaire.
dragonair234 wrote:
Petrosianic wrote:
intelligence is skill specfic. chess players come from all walks of life. karpov is a billionaire.
Google says Karpov's net worth is $145 million. I don't see how he could be a billionaire.
You are just counting material. You have to include positional factors.
And time on the clock.
Mar 12, 2014
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That conversation about gold medallists made me think about those Mountain Everest climbers.
After that some of them try to get some money as motivational speakers or authors.
It helps them if they are the first of some kind to be there (the first under 30 female peruvian with glasses to climb...).
I would find it strange to go to give advice to people from a company in an industry that I know nothing about.
Maybe not if they paid you enough money. (unless you're already a billionaire?)
tkbunny wrote:
and then there's will.i.am , director of creative innovations at intel
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Yeah, I think Alicia Keys was creative director at Blackberry for a time as well. They canned her before too long. Good thing, too. She was really dragging that company down.
@Talmapai, could you clarify your concept further? I am having trouble following. I am sure the error is mine, but I would be grateful if you could humor me. -ProfessorJames
Hey. If you mean, 'Academically' smart, then I think everyone has their own story as ta why they aren't as financially secure as most.
But most people who do play chess, aren't out for money. Playing's the thing. To me, intelligence really has no bearing on anyone's station in life. Even talented players need financial help to "break-in" the tournament circuit. To become recognized. Unless you're already rich, not many players will ever see an million dollars in their lifetime.
Talmapai wrote:
ProfessorJames hat geschrieben:
@Talmapai, could you clarify your concept further? I am having trouble following. I am sure the error is mine, but I would be grateful if you could humor me. -ProfessorJames
learn the basics of mathematic and read gossen´s laws 1 and 2.
if you cant follow this, forget it. by the way it was my mistake to waste my time to respond to that totally stupid question so come down with my posting or not but anyway it was my last posting to that topic.
is utility
is quantity of the -th good or service
is the price of the -th good and service
instead of price you can also say "use of the resources (time ...)"
From what I understand, the wordy way of saying this is : the marginal utility per dollar (or unit resource) of all commodities is the same for all commodities if you use your purchasing power (or resources) rationally.
Now rational behavior might be a huge assumption, especially when the utility depends on memory effects - a drug addict has a strong happiness incentive to spend his whole salary on drugs at any moment, but he will nethertheless be better-off taking rehab in the long term.
cough cough math proffesors arent millionaires. There smart
Talmapai wrote:
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we should be glad that einstein was born in germany - in usa he would become only a billionaire
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-23261289
Talmapai wrote:
Ubik42 hat geschrieben:
Talmapai wrote:
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we should be glad that einstein was born in germany - in usa he would become only a billionaire
ok that hurts - sorry. but i think you got what i ment. by the way: did you ever ask yourselve why so many jews lived in germany before nazi-regime? they lived in germany because it was one of the most tolerant and moral developed country of the world - no racism, social insurances - they did not try to colonize the whole world like great britain which was like french on her own war trip in africa, india, china - and the few colonizes were more like a cooperation - even some native american leaders immigrate to germany and wished to stay here also after dying - a paradise for artists, scientists ... . they also took many ideas and perfected them - in art - in science - and also the idea of racism respectively anti-jewish they took from outside for many reasons. and when hitler offered all jews to go out of the country they failed to find any countries - canada said: "no jew would be even too many jews" - and if you see that in switzerland ppl were castrated just because they were gypsis still in the 80!! - not (not sterelized - castrated), that australian did not accept relationships between white and natives still in the 80 and deported their childs - or the racism problems in afrika and usa - then i would say maybe its now time for germany to help others to get a higher rank of ethic - it seems we are the only one who learned that lesson and that we are again somehow the number one on ethic like we were before the nazis. (extreme view - yes - just an emotional reaction of american self-rightous pharisaic)
one point is funny: if an allien would land on earht in the 50ies and he should make a suggestion about who won the WWII - i think he would say: germany - isnt that crazy? but could they do on her own? - no. did they get help? i say no because germany was deleted for all times and is a colony now from usa and because of this point of view so many german hate the usa more and more (not me) - so its better to forget your clischees about german and to reflect more your own problems.
Yes, I got it. I think if Germany had not had the burden of Hitler and Nazisim, the first flag planted on the moon would have been a German flag.
Talmapai; I think you belong on our sister site, ChessKid.com