Is it everyone that has a rich kid friend that they will sell something to? Many businessmen or women don't have and they tend to do well in their area of business. OP, what I want you to understand is that not everyone who makes it in life sells things to their rich kids to consume. It's always that they have the poor and rich kids who consume what is being sold to them. That indirectly means that the kind of business one has, and its demand from the rich and poor people is what makes people rich, not another way around that the rich are to make someone rich if they sell things to them. By the way how many rich people do we have in a given society? Do we expect the rich kids to be rich all the time to sustain us in our businesses?