That was the question put to me when I was teaching elementary school in my late twenties when chatting with a female graduate friend from a very well-off family who knew about my versatility in many areas, academic and athletic. I was somewhat nonplussed by the question because I didn’t see any connection whatever between being smart, i.e. intelligent/informed/versatile and being rich. She did. It seemed that the only reason that she was happy to be intelligent was because it made being rich so much easier, and that of course was the true aim of life, wasn’t it?