Big money is made through ownership of things that increase rapidly in value.

An entrepreneur has a leveraged long position in one stock and if that stock explodes in
value, they can become very rich. E.g. Bill Gates and Microsoft. This is the same with early
employees of startups and c-suite managers who get stock options which surge in value in
line with the surge in the stock price.

A trader is the same. Hold onto a portfolio of assets surging in value (up or down). The only
difference is risk control. You try to jump on board these assets with low risk so that if they
don’t surge, you get out with a tiny loss to protect your capital. And you have the benefit of
being able to shift ownership of assets so you constantly are holding onto assets that are
surging at any given moment and dumping those that aren’t surging. E.g. Soros &
Druckenmiller, Jesse Livermore, Michael Marcus, bitcoin traders

Revenue generators do not get super rich

Traders at investment banks make bank shareholders rich

Salespeople make their company’s shareholders rich

Liquidity providers do not get super rich.

Investment bankers can make decent money, but relatively speaking, the amounts made are
small.

Same thing with real estate agents.