What I take away from this thread (and already knew) is that intelligence is just one factor in worldly success. That doesn't change the fact that great talent enables achievements that most can only dream about, and which are valuable in different ways from things rewarded by money, Audis and vacations abroad. There is no perfect mapping of intellectual achievement to the monetary value system imposed by society, and many great thinkers have failed to be properly appreciated in their own time. Thus I see these repetitive musings on the nature of worldly success as tangential at best to discussions of intelligence.
