Wickham is an idiot

I have known it for a long time, but now it has finally been proven to me that Wickham is the biggest idiot on the planet. He elopes with Lydia which in the first place is stupid because their family is undesirable. He then says that he will only marry Lydia if he is paid, but he only asks for a minor amount. He only asked for a little less then ten thousand pounds. in my mind this has proven once and for all that Wickham is stupid and not to ever be trusted.