Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy.
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.
I am wealthy in my friends.
Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.
Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.
Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.