Is he actually smart?

shapiro is a neocon who got repeatedly dunked on by the alt right during the 2016 election.
He also looks like a guy who got shoved into a lot of lockers.

How can finance even be called an industry? Some jackass in Manhattan or Chicago or wherever reads the morning paper, sees what other people are already doing, then he makes a guess. He tells his assistant to copy this guess down, then she emails it to some intern down in the company's bowels, who then enters the parameters of that guess into the computer, which then proceeds to do all the actual "work." This "work" consists of making billions of trades a second that are based entirely on how many fractions of a penny they can accrue fit every buy and sell. Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, nothing is changed except a bunch of imaginary numbers that make sense only to the machines, regardless of whatever the reality is. It's less real than the economy of EVE online for Marx's sake.

This. Hes a zionist yuppie shitstain that needs to be shoved into an oven.

An oven would be too good for Benny.
He deserves to nearly die by torture, be allowed to fully heal, then tortured again.

That doesn't mean the nature of exploitation will not go away. You can do both at the same, advocate socialism and being independent

Under capitalism intelligence is having money, memorizing facts and having an overpriced piece of paper that says your smart.

at a certain point for many people, intellect & intelligence have an inverse correlation