ikewise, I don't really think there's going to stop being people who want to better themselves and "get rich"
I do hope people constantly continue to try and better themselves - but not in getting rich, but rather becoming more spiritual.
The idea of "getting rich quick" is a relatively new phenomenon, and again, impossible to do in a society without dark money and corruption. The best you should strive for, as you pointed out well, start a small business and create revenue stream that can support your lifestyle with minimal time investment, while also supporting the life style of your employees. To me, that would be the pinnacle of financial utopia.
you WILL be a millionaire
Checkout the history of very first millionaires. It happened after the British war of 1812, when the bankers did what they do well and bankrupted the country and in the process became millionaires for the first time.
In a honest society it should be almost impossible for people to become 100x richer than average.
Getting rich quick IS stupid, no argument here. However I, and everyone else who's a capitalist, will fight you to the dying breath on the second paragraph. Screw that. If you work harder than 90% of the population your entire life, build something for yourself, and make smart decisions, YES you SHOULD be 100X more wealthy than the average person.
Literally any other result is socialism/communism, or debt slavery.
I don't see what's inherently impossible about getting rich quick in a society without dark money and corruption. Extremely unlikely? Sure. Something you can work towards/try to achieve/expect as an outcome? Certainly not. But impossible? I don't see why it would be. If you get lucky enough and are in the right place at the right time interacting with the right person/people you could certainly, at least in theory, end up with a fat pile of money on your lap or an extremely lucrative deal. No dark money or corruption needed. Just honest people who earned their fortune working or providing a product/service to people making a deal with someone who's really good at what they do despite only having just started out and who got extremely lucky with who they met.
I do hope people constantly continue to try and better themselves - but not in getting rich, but rather becoming more spiritual.
The idea of "getting rich quick" is a relatively new phenomenon, and again, impossible to do in a society without dark money and corruption. The best you should strive for, as you pointed out well, start a small business and create revenue stream that can support your lifestyle with minimal time investment, while also supporting the life style of your employees. To me, that would be the pinnacle of financial utopia.
Checkout the history of very first millionaires. It happened after the British war of 1812, when the bankers did what they do well and bankrupted the country and in the process became millionaires for the first time.
In a honest society it should be almost impossible for people to become 100x richer than average.
Getting rich quick IS stupid, no argument here. However I, and everyone else who's a capitalist, will fight you to the dying breath on the second paragraph. Screw that. If you work harder than 90% of the population your entire life, build something for yourself, and make smart decisions, YES you SHOULD be 100X more wealthy than the average person.
Literally any other result is socialism/communism, or debt slavery.
I don't see what's inherently impossible about getting rich quick in a society without dark money and corruption. Extremely unlikely? Sure. Something you can work towards/try to achieve/expect as an outcome? Certainly not. But impossible? I don't see why it would be. If you get lucky enough and are in the right place at the right time interacting with the right person/people you could certainly, at least in theory, end up with a fat pile of money on your lap or an extremely lucrative deal. No dark money or corruption needed. Just honest people who earned their fortune working or providing a product/service to people making a deal with someone who's really good at what they do despite only having just started out and who got extremely lucky with who they met.