This freaking system is artificially drawing smart people in finance, when they could create new business and job instead. (Remind me a book called "smart people should build things")
You mean build stuff like a chat app that you can take nude selfies that self destruct? People follow the money. I thought you were a "free market" proponent
Ahah you don't know how these apps take my nerves. As a developer, that lost so much time of my life to make great software, some of which failed, seeing such stupid app succeed make me crazy, I admit that.
But these app are not the software that drive the economy, only the one that make the biggest noise, because everybody can understand what they do.
But they are not all so evil, take Angry bird for example (that is not as much stupid as chat app), it created a whole industry of derivatives that are maybe bigger in term of sales than the game itself.
You can't deny that it has not created jobs.
If you mean become rich in fiat money, then it is still the same old game where bankers positioned at the top. You can't earn money without bankers first release money at higher level. Even there is a skill shortage, without money that shortage will not translate into income
I just realized recently that money has never been generated by free market choice, it is always an imagination in people's mind and bankers/governments create money to fit this imagination: People think money is a measurement/unit of value, and the more you have the more things you can buy. Then as an authority they create this unit of value as money, give it a value and then people are satisfied. Since people need money to measure the amount of value, they seldom notice that the value of this unit itself is changing
So you understand why more and more of my money is converting in BTC, regardless of the rate of the day and why I believe in its future.
The bankers and politicians have an edge that you can't beat no matter how much you work, as long as we use their money, which is not free market.
Nevertheless, the difference between poor and rich is not capital anymore but knowledge.
Central bankers, politicians and all parasites living on government subsidies are the exception, their edge is relations and privileged information, not knowledge.
Once their relations become irrelevant (either when they are dead, or the policital powers shift), they will not keep their capital for long.
The rich does not stay rich forever and automatically, it takes deliberate fight to protect it, even for the politician and central banker.
The thought that one has just to give money to someone else hand and it grows automatically while you sleep, keeping the rich rich without effort, and gov has to step in to prevent that (giving even more power to the politician), is a dangerous myth.