Originally posted by muckmaw
To be truly wealthy in this country, most people inherit it.
I don't know many self made multi-Millionaires.
I know a few, and most of them aren't just self-made, but immigrants to boot, who didn't have the benefit of citizenship all their lives. I'm not talking about the crooked, ruthless opportunists trickling in from various eastern-European hell-holes, but simple, hardworking folks who were underappreciated in their homelands.
There is still plenty of room to create substantial wealth in the states.