If you saved 150 dollars a month for 50 years and got 2% interest on your savings, at the end you'd have an extra 150k or so. That's nice, but not really wealth

If you saved 150 dollars a month for 50 years and got 2% interest on your savings, at the end you'd have an extra 150k or so. That's nice, but not really wealthy. Especially because we're not taking into account fifty years of inflation. If you want to be wealthy you need to figure out ways to earn gigantic amounts of money, not save small amounts by cutting out the pleasant parts of life. Wealthy people tend to either inherit or produce their wealth, not save it by a lifetime of penny pinching.