Only one person is the smartest person in the world and they are so for only a very brief time from months to minutes, considering cognitive decline and flux of cognition. At a given point the probability you are the smartest person in the world is one in 8 billion, assuming a naive selection. Intelligence has pareto distribution returns. Intelligence is useless without the resources(read free time) to manifest itself. Intelligence is the most important trait.

You have been butchered by globalism and unmitigated human growth.