Have you ever met a smart poor person?

[OddBeMe]

Like a really intelligent person living in poverty? Not having money issues… actual poverty.
And I mean adults, as kids can’t affect their economic status, unfort…

Yes

No

[msmissydc]

Depends which type of poverty. Relative poverty definitely yes. Absolute poverty not at the time but he was before. Note Intelligence is hard to measure so I go with education here but still.

The one I met only shortly and I personal had not much to do with him at all. He worked for my fiance and I was with him on a business trip. He was hired (from a secondary business) as an construction worker and made money this way. When my fiance needed to hire an technician in measurement technology, he told them that was his job before his old company closed and he had to take every job opportunity he could find. He was in poverty after the situation with the company he worked at. My fiance later learned that even before that job he was a university lecturer in metrology in another country, but wanted to go back to his family in his home country. The construction side was in his home country not where I live. As my fiance needed to check for safety and insurance reasons that he was capable for this, he learned his story checked out and he was overqualified for this job by far.

Note: most of this I only heard indirectly from my fiance. As I said I just saw him while visiting my fiance at work.

[katiesmuff]

Yes some of them have worked for me over the years.

[jshm2]

Plenty.

I work in a high money tech field and a lot of the people I come across are either highly educated or highly experienced. But their companies tend to employ grads in internships mostly, and the American companies are the worst for such exploitation.

[Leopard23]

Yeah. There are people out there so smart that they are stupid.

I've met scientists, bankers, accountants etc living on the streets. There but for fortune go you or I.

[OddBeMe]

Right…the homeless are dumb libs right?

[Leopard23]

You can have an educated profession and be a liberal or a conservative. Sometimes things just go wrong I people's lives and they lose everything, mental health problems, drug addiction, divorce, a car accident, cancer. During the financial crisis how many people ended up on the street after the banks took their homes? I mean sure it is true like you say that liberal cities and states have a serious homeless problem but when you are on the street I don't think left vs right politics matters to you.
https://youtu.be/KDDtKERvF4M

[ibodi]

yeah a turkish who was phd in MIT but study on cold project but be discoveried by a company now it is key no matter technology or economy

[msc545]

I have met such people more than once. Being good with money doesn't necessarily mean you're intelligent and being intelligent doesn't necessarily mean you're good with money.

[OddBeMe]

People poverty aren’t salaried but bad with money…lol

[NathanDavis]

yes... in the mirror

when I moved out of my parent's at 22

[Stoner710]

High how ya doing I’m poor and smart

[OddBeMe]

Poor ain’t poverty. I’ve been poor and had to take shit jobs. But I’m talking constant poverty

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Yes and I hired him.

[Anonymous]

I've seen them many times.