No, there are plenty of smart selfish people who don't care about anyone but themselves.

The Kardashians are wealthy. Paris Hilton is wealthy. Of the wealthiest people in America, how many would you guess actually inherited a significant fortune? It is quite a lot.

the idea that the wealthy only got there via hard work and education is so naive as to be laughable.

Ok, define "intelligent", If intelligent means paid leaves which means less profit for companies and proper funding for scientific research that doesn't make corporations money because it leads to free energey etc. then that's not intelligent at all, it's practical it's ideal, it's intelligent for corporations to have…