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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Humm... Check your Forbes 500. Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and all the rest, not a whole lot of land developers & financiers in that lot. Business owners, yes, but would they have had the idea that they started the business on if they hadn't gotten the technical education first?
Of course there are other ways to make money, if you have the aptitude, but the surest way to go from being a have-not to having at least modest prosperity is a technical education.
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First off, the Forbes 500 lists the biggest businesses in America...what do you expect? Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world, made his money through investments and finance. Go to your local marina and check out the megayachts...I bet the owners are either financiers, business owners, or land developers.
Secondly, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs never graduated college. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison gained their wealth through cut-throat business practices reminiscent of Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel. Steve Jobs gained his wealth by exploiting people like Steve Wozniak. All three are highly intelligent, savvy business people...but PhD's they are not.
Americans have a love affair with Horatio Alger Jr. and his "rags to riches" stories. Every society is made up of the haves and have nots. The middle class are merely the have's cronies who get paid extra for loyalty. You may be happy sitting on $120,000/yr, but you are not the one in control.
I'm not trying to say that America and its ways are evil. There is
a lot worse out there, but as much as we hate to believe it, we are far from perfect. To an American, a mansion is a sign of success. To me, it is utter failure.
- LostCause