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Quite a few. Intelligence doesn't equal hard work. One of the 10 smartest people I know I graduated with, and I'll guarantee that you could drop him into any of my sophomore engineering classes (very hard stuff) and he'd be able to learn it, easily. He's working at a gas station now (since he got fired from a supermarket) because he barely passed highschool and didn't want to mess around with college. The guy could literally do anything, and could STILL probably do anything if he'd just go to college now, but he doesn't want to put in the work.
But it got me to thinking, if he ends up getting a job and is able to sustain it and provide for his (eventual) family, so what? It's how he chose to live his life and he owes the rest of society nothing, even though he has a lot of mental gifts.
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