tl;dr: Taleb argues that there is no correlation between wealth and IQ (which the article accepts), but this article argues that this misses the explanation that this is because plenty of high-IQ people don't prioritize being wealthy. If you instead look at people who prioritize being wealthy, high-IQ people do successfully acquire more wealth because their IQ allows them too -- therefore IQ does matter for wealth.

This is fascinating and a really valuable perspective. Amusingly, it's a case of "causation doesn't imply correlation".

So to draw a further conclusion:

If everyone prioritized wealth equally, then the overall statistics would show higher IQ correlating with more wealth.

Does this actually mean that there's a greater tendency among higher-IQ people to not pursue wealth? E.g. perhaps a larger proportion of middle-IQ people prioritize wealth, while a larger proportion of higher-IQ people prioritize academia or the creative arts or just a healthier work-life balance?