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They're working as baggage handlers, so that's a safe bet.

From an entrepreneurial standpoint, they created a 10M ARR high risk business but highly liquid business with little loans and minimal leverage. What have you accomplished?

All joking aside, I think it’s quite rude and elitist to imply something about someone’s intelligence just because of their chosen occupation. My dad had a Master’s in electrical engineering, brilliant at maths and physics, and was top of his class at university. As an immigrant he could only find jobs doing manual labor and whatnot.

Around the same. Don't forget where you're posting.

I didn't say it was a certainty, just a good bet. Besides working as baggage handlers, engaging extraordinarily risky behavior and then directly taking actions that led to being caught does not speak well to their decision-making capabilities.

There's a difference between working an honest manual labor job and being a thief.

The conclusion OP made is that them working as baggage handlers implies they have low intelligence. The truth is we don’t actually know the details of what happened yet. As other posters noted, reliably moving $30k worth of weed daily isn’t nothing and doesn’t seem like something you’d get just by stealing it out of random suitcases which implies there may be more here. Maybe they were stupid or maybe they were helping cartels smuggle the shit. But their job as baggage handlers tells us nothing about their intelligence.

They are getting up at 4am like all tech billionaires say is what got them where they are today ...

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