The idea that hard work leads to riches is ridiculous bullshit propagated by the rich who do no work and get rich off the hard work of others. It's beyond stupid, yet ingrained in our culture from the puritan days. It serves to keep people down while making them work for others' enrichment. We need to get rid of diseased thinking like this from our culture. Most rich people are rich because they were born into the upper class and many have never worked a day in their lives. Plenty of poor people and middle class people work really hard at their jobs with zero chance of becoming rich. Zero. Slackers abound in all classes. There is no correlation between hard work and good outcomes. That's just ridiculous. If there was, someone putting in hard work at McDonald's should be rich when they retire. The only rich thing about this is the joke played on people that believe this stupid puritan bullshit.