Comment by eadmund

> The only way to escape wage slavery without being born wealthy is to be a business owner and have that business scale.

‘Business owner’ in the sense of owning stock, sure.

Save 10–20% of your income. Invest it in index funds (we can argue about which particular indices). Work for a few decades. Retire wealthy.

Then bequeath that wealth to your heirs when you die, giving them a leg up on this whole process.

> Many of us spend our lives writing software that has lasting benefit for our employers but our reward is a flat hourly fee.

The employer takes the risk that the software will have no benefit at all. We get paid no matter what. I like that trade. I’ll invest in a diversified market index rather than my single program, thank you very much.