Lets assume There are two types of persons, 1st is sharp and intelligent but not hard working. He does work but only for a limited amount of time. He cant sacrifice anything like playing, reading, watching movie, travelling etc. for the sake of work. If he has some work to do and it needs extra time out of his work schedule then he wont do the work. Second guy is very hard working. He is good but not as intelligent as first one. He has the intelligence to perform the work assigned to him by hard work but lacks the spark or trickle of intelligence which first one has.
who is more useful for making society and world a better place? Who deserves greater rewards? What do you think?
I admire 1st kind of person more than 2nd type of persons.I have three reasons and I will put it in black and white.
1) If today intelligent person don't have time to do work then tomorrow he will have and work will be done. World is not going to end today [:P]
2) Something great, revolutionary and world changing things can be done only by 1st type of person. 2nd type of person may be better at maintaining the existing processes and making existing things working but they wont be able to ignite a revolution and invent something marvellous. With only 2nd type of person, world will be boring, stuck and progress will be too slow. With only 1st type of person, world will be less organized but it will be exciting and more progressive.
3) 1st type of person can devise machines to minimize the effort required to do something hence he will compensate his lack of ability to work hard. 2nd type of person cant do anything to compensate for his lack of intelligence. Only hard work wont be able to compensate for the lack of ideas.
Because of all these reasons I think its important to keep intelligent persons happy and also they deserve more rewards.Basically I am advocating one of the principles of capitalism. Anyone against my reasoning?
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The beauty of chaos and orderliness lie in their coexistence.Its actually coexistence which gives them a completeness.While Chaos seeks no reason to create something new, orderlines work on the utility of the creation.
One may say that rewards for an intelligent Man should be greater than the hardworking counterpart but it is very necessary to understand the scope of reward.
Let's understand the scope of reward at two levels.On the first level the focus is on the present time and more of about meeting exigencies, money, status etc leading to defining Quality of Life. On this level society must ensure that Quality of Life is preserved for both the Intelligent & the hardworking.
The next level talks about the timeliness or the effect of the contribution to the society of future. The glory of the Creative Gems prevails for ages.This is the place where Chaos has a much bigger pie to secure with very little room for the hard working folks.
man gaye guru. tumhari 1, 1 baat satya hai.
I have news for you my dear friend. There is no invention, no spark of genius, no revolutionary change which can not be achieved without the so-called 'brilliant people' about whom you sing paeans. I think its high time you get out of this Ayn Rand shit which seems to possess so many of our college graduates that it has reached epidemic proportions. Even thinking from the capitalist viewpoint which you imagine that you are taking, there should be equal acknowledgment and reward for both the set of people because on a net basis, both the set of people will make equal contribution to the society. The revolutionary ideas theory which you think supports your argument is a pack of lies. For example, exactly three other people except Alexander Graham Bell had invented the telephone at around the same idea. So, even if we remove Graham Bell from the chain of actions which history is, you and I would have been talking over cellphones most probably today. And come to think of it, why shouldn't the other three inventors be considered 'highly intelligent' as well. Just because AG Bell beat them by a few hours to patent the telephone, huh?? So please come off your "individualism is best" pipe dream. Wake up and smell the reality. Its the regular joe who makes the world go. After all most of the revolutionary ideas and inventions were not work of a brilliant mind suddenly having a flash in his mind. They were 'serendipitously' revealed to their inventors.
@anurag
Interesting but not convincing. First of all I am a big time critic of Ayn Rand philosophy as a whole
(May be I agree partially) and I embrace socialism which respect creative individuals and not make them to feel frustrated as is the case with current socialist systems. If you read my post confusion it may be more clear to you what I think about objectivism, or you can ask pushkar [:D]
Either you were too confused while reading or while commenting. The topic is intelligence vs hard work. I dont know what makes you believe that I mean to say Intelligent people are only those who have done something revolutionary and are famous too. Those other three persons who are not famous and invented telephone at the same time as Graham bell were also intelligent. I am sure that its not the case that only Graham bell invented by intelligence and others three by hard work.
I dint say at any point that hard working people should be deprived of rewards. but i dont borrow your idea that there should be equality in reward distribution. Consider a Nobel laureate (NL) in physics and a very hard working physics Prof at IIT Imaginary. Do you think there should not be any differentiation between the rewards for Nobel laureate and prof at IITI? If your Utopian dream comes in reality then I am very sure lots of very bright and intelligent persons will be satisfied by being a hard working prof at IITI and there will be many frustrated Nobel laureates.
@anurag
BTW,I dont have any personal issues if someone takes side of intelligent or hard working. I am neither hard working nor intelligent [:)]
The post was meant for the sake of discussion only and more thinking people like anurag (not necessarily:) are needed to make this thread lively.
Arun , imagine you have a BMW and Maruti 800. You cant afford to take BMW to office everyday or say you wish to save more and more money and maruti being economic , you take it to office everyday for that matter everyplace. While you use you BMW only when you go out on date with girls( i know thats really occasional :P).
In this are you talking of fuelling your BMW everyday just because it stands in your lawn and you use it once a month. I would rather suggest you to fuel your maruti 800.You can impress people with your BMW but it can help you if you put some more fuel for one day but for your sustainable travel through the city everyday you need to put more fuel overall in your Maruti 800. Else ppl will start telling you "see that man, till yesterday he was roaming in BMW , today he is walking on road " :)
@ankit
Truly speaking, I cant get your point though it would be nicer if i can afford BMW occasionally :)
Do you mean to say that intelligent persons are like a costly car? If thats the case then I would say BMW should be maintained properly otherwise we will always be stuck with maruti and BMW may not work when required. In that case most likely scenario is your breakup with your hard found girlfriend.
Huh! I am not going anywhere with my reply too. I will say again that I dint got your point :P
As someone once said:
intelligence = principal
hard work = compound interest
so even if someone has more intelligence, someone else who works harder can (and usually will) achieve more than the intelligent but lazy person.
@inf.0
convincing logic. Now i will start working hard in the hope that someday (less principle+compound interest)will become greater than (more principle) or (more principle+simple interest) [:)]
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