Why are so many naive people rich?

[jennifer_bloom]

Naive people have trustworthy friends

Naïveté does not block wealth

Naive people are more intelligent

I disagree that naive people are rich

[ZackBan]

Wealth doesn't work that way.

You don't have to "be" one way or the other to be rich. You have to actually be willing to do things to build things to sell things.

Wealth is only a result of working smart and knowing where to put your money.
Many people who are socially clueless and come off as naive simply happen to know how to play the money game and get rich.

Plus you got those who are born into it and wouldn't be rich otherwise because they have nothing going on for them

[haphazard]

The richest family in the world, the rothschilds, built their fortune by funding both sides of wars. So yeah, you have to "be willing to do things".

[ZackBan]

Yeah but that doesn't mean you can't be rich without getting people killed.
Actors are rich for playibg roles.
Tech guys are rich for having apps and software on the market
Some doctors are rich for being specialists that can perform extensively sensitive operations.
And the list goes on really

[haphazard]

Rich people live in a different world than normal people.

[FreyaRed]

It's not a rule.
Most really rich people send their children to boarding schools with strict rules and competition with other children for two years, where their spoiled brats learn basic social skills and competency. Amount of trust you are willing to risk in relation with someone, isn't something you can learn surrounded with people who flatter entire day.

[Avicenna]

A lot of people pretend to be naive rather than to admit a lot of things they know are true but they feel aren't socially acceptable to acknowledge.

[Inexpensivefurniture]

You don't have to know how the world works if you're rich. They get to hold on to their innocence longer

[haphazard]

If you're rich, you tell the world how it works.

[Inexpensivefurniture]

@haphazard Exactly. You don't have to learn how to get through live and improvise and go without something when you can throw money at every problem

[Curmudgeon]

I think you have it backwards. Rich people (born into it) tend to be naive.

[Anonymous]

Old money
They probably inherited their wealth from their parents

[alance99]

Its could be due to hard work or their luck

[postaldudePL123]

It's random