[RossTech]

Definitive NO to your question. Riches is not money, it is free time to do as you please and spend that time doing whatever you find most valuable, e.g. spending time with family, enjoying friends, doing nothing, being free, not selling your time to an employer for just money, or even worse working overtime for 1.5x rate. Many many many people HATE their work, or even just dislike it. And the idea of 'working hard' becomes a joke. Unless you are doing your own startup or thoroughly committed to a cause then as an employee work is but a means to an end. Absolutely nobody actually loves or is passionate about 'changing the way people communicate', or, 'creating the best employee benefits platform ever', or 'disrupting a transport industry', or whatever the taste of the day is. Apart from the founder, everyone else knows it's just hot air, towing the company line etc. Noone really gives a f. Most people's values lie way outside of 'work' or a general sense of work ambition as you quickly realise that rising though the ranks actually bring you less and less free time and therefore less and less real pleasure. Money becomes a terrible compensation. People in those situations frame seniority or responsibility, and it's corresponding wages, as success, when anyone who uses their brains realises it's the opposite. You don't need much money to live a thoroughly spectacular life. Don't dedicate your life to getting financially rich! Dedicate your time to whatever is most valuable in your life, and quit worrying that you don't have enough money, or the big house or new car... all that means absolutely nothing in comparison to life experiences, relationships, travel, free time, contemplation, and whatever brings you the most pleasure in life. The whole point of money is to spend it and most things don't cost that much. Working hard to eventually become rich is a terrible goal. (If you are highly ambitious and money is your true pleasure then disregard this entire comment!)