[Wings of Fire]

My point is that playing the system is dishonest and only available to the exceedingly lucky or Machivellian.

If you eventually come to earn over 100K a year you will be rolling in it, but you'll be paying most of that as tax, you'll be paying the costs of living and you'll probably be supporting your family. You will never be in a position to own money generating property unless you come up with a novel idea and can make the bank accept the value of said idea.

Or you could fraud, embezzle, blackmail and generally lie your way to the top. Like mobsters and other assorted scum do.

When I talk of property I do not talk of residential property sorry, and there is generally some class flexibility. But generally speaking the gap between Upper Middle and Upeer is a closed door.

EDIT: You can also play the stock market, I suppose that's the main way of playing the Capitalist system, but I'll be damned if that's at all related to your skill and worth as a human being.