The article here is largely a statement of a tautology because it defines success as financial success. If you're born with enough wealth, you have an income h

The article here is largely a statement of a tautology because it defines success as financial success. If you're born with enough wealth, you have an income higher than those stated in the article from investments only; you've "succeeded" by their metric from birth. At 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than that, you can afford to hold out for what is effectively an infinite period compared to a poor person and so never work a $20K job because it is actually beneath you - you don't need it - it would be a net negative over you continuing to study, network, search for other work, etc. Of course a person with money is more likely to go to college - they're more likely to do pretty much anything they want to do, because they have money!