Getting rich is not impossible

It just comes with a price that nobody wants to pay. If you start from scratch, it will no doubt take you most of your lifetime to make your first million unless you get really lucky with a big shot idea and some help from the higher ups. The thing is, we humans are mortal and if we get lucky, we will live for 70-80 years and then bite the dust. It will take most of your life to become significantly wealthy (the type where you live in big fancy houses, drive luxurious cars and spend without worrying how much is going). The price to pay is your time and energy that by the time you reach your riches, you’ll most likely be old and not have much time left to live. If hypothetically we humans could live up to the age of 150, then I would definitely say it’s worth it. You could work your butt off for the first 50 years of your life and enjoy the 100 left over (provided you only start becoming frail at around 130 or something). But no, we have such a short amount of time on earth that most of us realise it’s not worth spending majority of that short time chasing the bag only to have enormous amounts of riches by the time we are old and frail. It really isn’t impossible at all to make a significant amount of money, it just comes at a cost that most of us don’t want to pay.