I'm sorry, I disagree with this. This is the lesson that Wall Street and Uncle Sam wants you to learn. However, having been an adult involved with "real business" for over a decade now, I am quite certain there is extremely little correlation between _actual_ productivity and wealth.

If there was, plumbers, farmers, construction workers, miners (who work in actual mines) and garbage men would get paid the most. These are people who really bust their ass and _actually_ work hard all day long performing _actual work_.

Most business is a fucking joke. I work as a healthcare fraud analyst and I'll be the first to admit the entire healthcare industry (in America) is a sick joke where people die at the end.

If you work in an office or sit in front of a computer all day, you know nothing of hard work, stop pretending like you do.

Moving around numbers from one bucket to another, lunch meetings with people with plastic smiles and fancy suits, trying to out-think, out-maneuver or out-sleazeball your competition -- none of this is ACTUAL work.

Its "new work" we made up for ourselves to make ourselves feel important as we slowly collapse the rest of society which we ironically need to sustain inordinately spoiled lifestyles.