While you can argue endlessly over whether it is "fair" or not, acquiring wealth follows rational patterns; and the factors which determine the wealth you can accumulate are primarily within your own control. Unfortunately, most people see the sacrifices and decisions individuals made to get to where they are; and therefore do not realize that the sacrifices they find unacceptable are what is holding them back from their success.
As an example of this, you talk to almost any software developer in the world and they will have a story about how they thought of one of these billion-dollar websites/web-applications at about the same time as their founder did. Of those, somewhere in the range of 99% of them didn't put a effort into creating a similar service, and around 99% of those who remain only put in a token effort and gave up when it became hard or when their life demanded their time. Of the 1 in 10,000 people who actually put in a serious effort, if they repeat this effort even after they fail, they will eventually find success.







