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The Super-Rich

Today the super-rich can derive their wealth from any era. It’s possible to be
a super-rich hunter gatherer as the Maori from New Zealand are from
fishing rights. You can also be a super-rich rancher or farmer from the

Agrarian Age, and be a super-rich automaker from the Industrial Age. As
already mentioned, there are super-rich twenty-year-old billionaires of the
Information Age, young people who became super-rich with the
inexpensive and abundant resources of technology, information, and their

ideas. The common bond among all these is that information enabled the
coordination of resources at a much quicker and higher level than ever
before. It is this coordination that creates the super-rich.

The Gap

At the same time, there are people who are perishing because of obsolete or
inadequate information. There are indigenous tribes who are being wiped
out as their forests are taken away. There are farmers going broke, and
automakers laying off thousands of workers. Once-prosperous record store

chains are now being wiped out by downloaded music.
In America, the richest country in the world, we have millions of people
who are deeply in debt, clinging to the last strands of job security, and
wondering how they will afford an education for their kids and a retirement

for themselves. Millions struggle in this rich country because they continue
to operate with Hunter-Gatherer, Agrarian, or Industrial Age ideas.
The widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else is made by
information. The good news is that information is abundant and free. Today,

it’s relatively easy for a person, even the very poor or the young, to go from
nothing to super-rich without much money. To be rich today, you do not
have to be a conquistador, sailing to foreign lands and robbing the
indigenous people of their resources. You do not need to raise millions of

dollars in the stock market to build a car factory or employ thousands of
workers. Today, information and a very inexpensive computer can transport
you from poor to super-rich while you’re sitting at home. All it takes is the
right information.