There's not that much wealth in the world

Nobody becomes superwealthy through paychecks—it takes equity in growing assets to create real wealth. Just compare the net worth of CEOs to the founders of their companies. Cash compensation will improve your lifestyle, but not your wealth—it isn’t enough, and saving is counterintuitive and just plain hard. High-income individuals tend to flock to

Wealth is just the accumulated leftovers after you spend what you take in.

Wealth is what you don’t see.

But today it’s no longer possible to express our prosperity in simple dollars, pounds, or euros. From healthcare to education, from journalism to finance, we’re all still fixated on “efficiency” and “gains,” as though society were nothing but one big production line.