How does the economy -really- work?

about tree fiddy monies

Luck
Inheritance via cash/assets/opportunity
Lies

or the Trumpfecta and dabble in all 3

Same way everyone else does. I think you meant to use the word wealthy. Those people have enough money to have a financial adviser on their payroll year round.

What a depressing view on things. Nobody is capable of becoming successful through their own hard work or intelligence. Even if the majority of rich people fell into one of those three categories, it's still a shitty view to spread around as it just kills the motivation of people to try improve their lives.

buy low
sell high
????
profit

Most people work hard their entire life. Hard work for wealth or success is an illusion, a marketing scam by motivational speakers and people that bitch about welfare queens while selling bootstraps

In this country and in this world either you inherit the foundation for what you have or you get incredibly lucky

I don't think anyone would argue that hardwork alone is enough to become wealthy. Many people in professions such as teachers, plumbers, fire fighters, or whatever work hard their entire life and never become wealthy, but that doesn't mean hard work can't make you wealthy, if you also make decisions along that are aimed toward a successful life (Success being defined as making money here).

I suppose it also depends on how we are defining wealthy in this scenario. I absolutely believe that someone from shitty circumstances can make good decisions and work hard and end up being relatively wealthy compared to most of the population...Say 150k-200k/yr....With little of it coming down to luck. If we're defining wealthy as the elite class making millions a year, then I'm going to agree that a large part of it will come down to luck/inheritance.

This post was edited by RzChaos on Dec 13 2017 10:12pm

150-200k is no where near wealthy. It isnt even rich. They are just well off and never more than one or two missteps away from being broke. I think chris rock had a good explanation of rich vs wealth. He said "Shaq is rich, the white man that signs shaqs check is wealthy".