A high-paying job in finance or tech is not what rich means. Rich means ownership and rent-seeking. It means dominating some part of your culture to the extent

A high-paying job in finance or tech is not what rich means. Rich means ownership and rent-seeking. It means dominating some part of your culture to the extent that you can force your will and desires on significant numbers of people - often against their personal interests. One of the best examples is the health insurance industry, which bankrupts half a million Americans every year - usually people who have been paying insurance premiums for decades, but their money is somehow channelled to shareholders instead of providing care when they need it. If you're not profiting from an operation like this on a mass scale, you're not truly rich.