" It has nothing to do with chance, birth, or connections."

Oh. So that's why so many rich come from poor or middle class backgrounds.

Oh. Wait a minute. It's the other way around.

Damn statistics. They never take account of mindset.

Hey, Barnaby, would you like to offer a statistical metric for "Mindset"? It's a way better marketing tool than MSU.

But what about all those radical anti-rich social democracies? You know, like that place that makes all the cars that the rich crave, my former employer in Stuttgart. You know, that country that is the size of Montana, with no natural resources to speak of, yet you can't build a car, manufacture a drug or even bottle a coke without their products. Possibly explains why they occasionally out-export the USA, never had a trade deficit, and have an equilibrium with China. And on and on.

Over there, as I can attest, it is considered socially defective to aspire to wealth. Just a good life. You know, to start, 6 weeks paid vacation every year, etc. No one pays a penny for schooling all the way through post-grad, no healthcare lotto etc.

And their poor CEOs who make half the CEO-to-Worker pay that those in the USA get with the right mindset.

What do you think? Maybe there's another mindset that we should look into?

Signed,

OneOfTheLucky