1) Because getting rich is pretty hard. 2) Because we haven’t been trying all that hard.
Most people who get rich probably got there in one of three ways:
1) Be born with rich parents (or other relatives) 2) Marry someone who’s already rich 3) Enter a career path in which it is possible to make lots of money, then be successful enough in that career path to become rich.
My brother did #3 - he won the Goldman Sachs internship lottery, got hired into a permanent position, then, a few years later, jumped ship to a hedge fund that offered him more money than his boss was making. (He even took every one of his co-workers at his trading desk with him, much to the dismay of both his boss and his boss’s boss.)
I’ve not made the attempt. My brother worked his ass off in a way I don’t want to duplicate, and it’s perfectly rational to decide that there are more important things in life than the expected size of one’s paycheck. ;)
1) Because getting rich is pretty hard.
2) Because we haven’t been trying all that hard.
Most people who get rich probably got there in one of three ways:
1) Be born with rich parents (or other relatives)
2) Marry someone who’s already rich
3) Enter a career path in which it is possible to make lots of money, then be successful enough in that career path to become rich.
My brother did #3 - he won the Goldman Sachs internship lottery, got hired into a permanent position, then, a few years later, jumped ship to a hedge fund that offered him more money than his boss was making. (He even took every one of his co-workers at his trading desk with him, much to the dismay of both his boss and his boss’s boss.)
I’ve not made the attempt. My brother worked his ass off in a way I don’t want to duplicate, and it’s perfectly rational to decide that there are more important things in life than the expected size of one’s paycheck. ;)