There are only four legitimate ways to cross social classes and accumulate wealth in this world.

1. Control the means of production with capital to generate compound interest. Ordinary people almost impossible to control the raw materials of industrial production. IP and intellectual property are the only way out in this track.

2. Become a winner in low-probability but high-return fields. Lottery, casinos, financial markets, cryptocurrencies—these are alternative channels for ordinary people to change their fate, but due to the probabilistic nature of these mechanisms, they also lead to a battlefield of corpses.

3. Become a scarcity expert, delve deeply into a specific technological field, and then earn passing fees or profit sharing from capital.

4. Predict the future. Through judgment of future trends and bold decision-making, dominate a certain field or leverage information asymmetry to crush competitors.

Unfortunately, these four methods rely almost zero on hard work.