Why Geniuses Don't Make Money

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How many Geniuses do you know??

If you say geniuses dont make the really big $ because they can't, I won't argue the fact that...

a) 999/1000 geniuses can't make a hundred million NW BUT
999,999/1,000,000 Joe Average cant make the hundred million NW either.

b) those geniuses who can make the really big money sometimes DO in fact decide not to because their goal was NOT to make money, but to help society.


Typical example of a genius at work.
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Fredric Banting Won the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1923.
He discovered insulin. (used by all diabetics) In his day, diabetics faced shorter lives, blindness and even lost limbs as a result of their body's low levels of insulin.

Did he seek a patent on his formula?!? Make millions and retire rich?? He and his lab mates decided to sell the rights to the formula to the University where he discoverd it for $1 as a means of ensuring that insulin could be affordably manufactured for years to come.