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I disagree.

Some people just want to be with attractive people. Or rich people. Or funny people. Or people of high social standing.

It's whatever their definition of "good for something" is... and that definition isn't always "smart".

Yep, that's what exactly I meant by smarter. Perhaps I should have been rather explicit. Smart doesn't necessarily mean intellectual. For a rich guy, it might mean someone who's richer (here the fact that the other person is richer implies he is smarter). Hope you get the drift.

It is whatever gives us a challenge to be more than we are -- richer, smarter, funnier, cuter, etc. Nietszche would call the drive to "overcome ourselves" just as instinctual (and fun) as the desire for soft, warm pleasure.

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