> How do people get (and stay, and get ever more) rich if not by accumulating wealth? "Accumulating wealth" and "not spending the money" are two entirely diffe

> How do people get (and stay, and get ever more) rich if not by accumulating wealth? "Accumulating wealth" and "not spending the money" are two entirely different things. If you have a million dollars and use it to build and operate a factory and then the factory makes things you can sell for two million dollars, your wealth has increased by a million dollars, but in the meantime you've spent the entire million dollars you started with on building and operating a factory. And the next thing you're going to do is spend the two million dollars in order to make four.