Wealth,security and freedom are not a result of what you do….
I can equally assure you that what you do produces income, but income can disappear overnight.
Wealth, security and freedom come from what you own,never by a paycheck or what you owe.
In my own view,wealth is not money rather money is just an instrument to measure and keep it going.
Wealth is simply the value that we create by production process.
For instance,if someone is able to create wealth without creating more value, and it must be at the expense of another source.
It’s been assum as a zero-sum game and has negative effects to economy,that’s absolutely a bad ideology.
The only way the average person is going to reach wealth and financial freedom is to start accumulating assets. Spending much lower than their income in order to invest for the future. Society is very much geared towards a spend, spend, spend attitude with people exposed to advertising incessantly. It takes a great deal of discipline not to overspend on unnecessary junk. Many people work hard their entire life, building up a pension pot and being happy to be free at 65+ years old, but it's much better if you can achieve stability before then. No disrespect to the older generation but you lose a lot of mobility and energy at that age, so having lots of money is almost offset by physical restrictions.