I hate the story about skilled people who work hard are not rich because of lazy poor people who don't want to work, steal their money. That is not the direction money is flowing in any society today.

1. Skilled hard working people seldom gets rich.

2. The man in the gutter never received your check in the first place. Your check went to wage expensive wars and bailout banksters.

3. If you want to be rich. Learn how to cheat, steal "legally" by abusing the legal system, intimidate, threaten, manipulate, fool, bribe and lie. The higher you get in the power hierarchy, the more people you are allowed to fool and the more help you get.

The 1% self made millionaires exist, but they are rare when you substract the the latter portion. That's a fairytale to make your work harder and acquire more tuition fees and student loans.