If I started out with wealth, I won't be trading and won't be on ET.
I am older, it took 20+ years of saving/compounding to create my runway and allowed me to quit and trade full time.
Those of us in the US are lucky. Even though most started with modest means (by our standard), by third world standard we started quite well off if we live below our means.
How many of you are familiar with a culture outside your rural town?
Austro-Hungary encountered that as routine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_Švejk

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