Wealth Loves Systems
It’s a funny thing, the way we talk about wealth in America.
We treat it like some mystical beast, sighted only in the wild streets of Silicon Valley or the iron-plated canyons of Wall Street. We consume stories about it with a weird mix of reverence and envy: the 22-year-old who coded an app in his dorm room and is now buying islands; the hedge fund titan who shorted the housing market and now uses hundred-dollar bills as bookmarks. These are our modern myths. And like all myths, they’re fantastic stories that do a terrible job of explaining how the world actually works.
They are the ones who escaped the Matrix.
The truth about getting wealthy is that it’s less about a single, lightning-strike moment of genius or luck, and more about understanding a hidden system.
Wealth is a game, played by a set of rules that no one ever bothers to write down for you.
The people who win this game aren’t necessarily smarter than everyone else. They’ve just figured out that the three big levers of wealth creation aren’t separate strategies you pick and choose from, like items off a diner menu. They’re a single, interconnected machine. A perpetual motion engine for your money. A wealth system. And once you see how the gears connect, you can’t unsee it. The game becomes ridiculously, almost offensively, simple.