Why the Rich Are Getting Richer teaches readers why the gap between the rich and everyone else grows wider. It discusses why savers are losers and why debt and taxes make the rich richer. It will make you realize why traditional education actually causes many highly educated people to live poorly. Ultimately, Why the Rich Are Getting Richer teaches you why going to school, working hard, saving money, buying a house, getting out of debt, and investing for the long term in the stock market is the worst financial advice for most people.
In this book, the reader will learn the answers Robert found on his life-long search, after repeatedly asking the question, “When will we learn about money?”
Readers will find out why real financial education may never be taught in schools, and what financial education really is.
Table of Contents
What Should I Do With My Money?
Why Savers are Losers
Why Taxes Make the Rich Richer... Legally
Why Mistakes Make the Rich Richer
Why Crashes Make the Rich Richer
Why Debt Makes the Rich Richer
A Tale of Two Teachers
What Financial Education is Not
Are You Financially Illiterate?
What is Real Financial Education?
Why the Rich Play Monopoly
Phantom Income: Income of the Rich
I Quadrant: Masters of Money
Do You Have a Plan B?
How to End Poverty: Students Teaching Students
No Fun Economics
How a Porsche Can Make You Richer
Final Words