Wealthy people make others more productive. Key example: By writing an engaging story, you make the people managing the printing presses more productive since i

Wealthy people make others more productive. Key example: By writing an engaging story, you make the people managing the printing presses more productive since it lets them print higher value stories than before and thus sell better. The author writing the story didn't take millions of dollars from the persons manning the presses, without the author the work done by the presses wouldn't be as valuable and those millions of dollars of value wouldn't have materialized. The same goes for most of the people who got rich on their own, they realized a way to create more value using the same number of workers, so they get rich and it didn't involve taking from anyone, just giving more value to customers.