I look at these articles about the "1%" and always come away with a different interpretation. "That looks pretty achievable", I think. With a bit of effort, I

I look at these articles about the "1%" and always come away with a different interpretation. "That looks pretty achievable", I think. With a bit of effort, I bet I could crack that income threshold one of these days. It's a little bit inspirational, actually, especially considering that I started out near the other end of the spectrum, income-wise. I don't really get the desire everybody else has to drag those people down. It's not a zero sum game, so having rich people in existence doesn't really harm me. It's kinda cool that people can get rich. Certainly much more fun than a world where nobody could get rich. If one wanted to get rich, this article does a good job of laying out how to do that. Pick a career path from that chart of "unfairly high paid professions" and establish one's self as a good one o' those. Choices include Doctor, Lawyer, Investment Banker, and Software guy. The first three require full time doctoring, lawyering or banking, upward of 80 hour weeks, forever, to pull off. The last one requires only sane weeks working for the Googles of the world, or a bit of entrepreneurial work building something that brings in that 1% income and can then be stepped away from. Seems pretty achievable.