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High IQ doesn’t equal success, it increases the chances of it, but doesn’t guarantee it. Intelligence is just raw brainpower, it’s like computing power of a processor. If you have a supercomputer and you play video games on it, it won’t make you a lot of money nor will it do anything productive, however if you use it to run simulations to predict the outcome of specific circumstances, then it would be productive, because the processing power used can pay off and you can capitalize on it. Just having high IQ doesn’t means much, because it’s like hardware and you also need the right software - information - to run on the hardware. In our societies what’s also important is social skills, creativity and emotional IQ. Most natural skills people here have are in decreasing demand, while what people on the left side of political spectrum have is increasing in demand. That’s result of natural evolution of high-population societies, perfectly seen in densely populated areas, such as large cities contrasting heavily with low-level suburban populations. It’s a mixture of genes, skills and natural evolution of societies, which must adapt to their environment, that’s why generally left tends to dominate in large cities, while right in suburbs, as genetic predispositions are heavily correlated with socio-politico-economic views. Success is also quite dependent on person’s circumstances, or “luck”.
If a person has high IQ, it doesn’t mean that they are better or worth more than those who are less intelligent. In our societies, from the general population’s point of view, the measure of individual’s worth is in the social status - no matter how it’s achieved. Just look at PhDs who slave away for decades for so little, begging for grants just to keep a job, while some rapper or actor gets millions - do you think they are more intelligent than PhDs who have contributed to mankind and sacrificed themselves for decades to do it?
