A nation without an aristocracy is a third world. Those who create wealth are those who can THINK.

Let's boil it all down to the basics. If you can think and have an idea, your thought can create value where there was none before. The guy who puts a rock in a box and calls it a "pet rock" had an idea and it caught on. Others find it amusing enough to pay some money for it. They VALUE his thought.

The street singers in Europe do the same thing. They put an idea or talent out there and if it is good enough get money thrown at them.

The "get rich" equation just means you have something others value. If you are rich it means you have something worth more or a lot of others want.

Plutocracies generally are quite successful. Rome, Athens, Carthage all prospered when those who made the most wealth and employed the most people had the most say in government. In Germany and Japan the trade schools run by the corporations educate their charges better than most all other schools. The nation prospers and its for this reason that Germany has always been the financial heart of Europe or for the longest time why Japan was the center of wealth in Asia. Industrialism in an individual should be rewarded. It makes little sense that the person who produces nothing should have a say over what the person who does produce can do. Yet that is precisely what socialism imposes.

Ideas and thought are the true basis of currency and wealth and a new word should probably be coined to describe this. I might as well do it. We live in a Thoughtocracy. The most powerful and successful thoughts will enrich some men and dominate the course of history and the fate of mankind.