Thing is, you obviously can become reasonably wealthy by following the first chart, if you’re talented and 1 in 10 thousand lucky, whereas the second chart has a significant success rate.
The mega rich are too weak-willed to concede they’ve essentially hit a 1 in 60 million Powerball. Winning the lottery warrants glee, not pride.
Billionaires all exploit the working class—or at the very least they all inherently rely on its occurrence, without exception.
I’d add a third slice to the second pie: steal your way there.
To make the odds in your favor even worse, all your competitors have an existing fortune and ARE exploiting the workforce. Good luck 👍
The youngest billionaire becomes one after inheriting a fortune.
If that’s not pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, well then I don’t know what is.
The „merciless exploitation of the working class” is not how they get rich, but how they keep their wealth. If you’re poor, you can’t really exploit the working class. It’s basically just birth lottery with a really really small section for the people with luck and/or hard work.
If you’re poor, you can’t really exploit the working class.
Of course you can. It’s called turning to crime. Most pimps, low level drug dealers, etc, aren’t rich.
I would split the second into thirds and add a “Lying, cheating and stealing” slice.
Both?
