Stop Beefing the Rich!
Your biggest dreams probably didn't start with you; they started with someone who showed you they were possible.
Internet people have made hating the rich a personality trait.
Every time someone buys a private jet, people are furious.
Every time someone builds a mansion, someone is tweeting about “eating the rich.”
Temi Otedola said she has 9 doctors, and the internet thinks she is tone deaf. That is her reality, what do you expect her to discuss on her podcast? Someone else’s reality?
While some of these criticisms of the rich are absolutely valid...
I think we’re missing something.
The only reason many of us know what’s possible is because someone got there first.
Think about it.
How do you know making £10,000 a month is possible?
Because someone showed you.
How do you know someone from your country can speak on global stages, build global businesses, or become a household name? Because someone did it.
Visibility stretches imagination.
Before social media, most people only dreamed as far as their neighborhood allowed.
Now?
A girl in Northampton can watch a founder in Lagos.
A student in Ghana can watch a creator in New York.
A teenager in Kenya can watch someone build a software company from their bedroom.
Suddenly...
The impossible has evidence.
I’m convinced that one of the greatest gifts successful (rich) people unknowingly give the world isn’t money.
It’s permission.
Permission to think bigger.
Permission to believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
Permission to ask, “If they can... why can’t I?”
Because here’s the truth; Most dreams are borrowed before they become personal.
You didn’t wake up one morning wanting to start a business. You saw someone build one.
You didn’t suddenly decide you wanted to travel the world. You watched someone else doing it.
You didn’t imagine becoming a consultant, creator, investor, or CEO out of nowhere.
Someone showed you what that life looked like.
Then your brain quietly filed it under “Possible.”
Now, does this mean every rich person deserves applause?
Absolutely not.
Some wealth is built through innovation. Some through exploitation. Some through luck. Some through privilege.
Some through all four.
We should absolutely question systems. We should call out injustice. We should demand fairness.
But don’t become so obsessed with resenting wealth that you reject the lessons and visibility it offers.
Because while you’re busy proving why someone else’s success doesn’t count...
You’re shrinking your own imagination.
If you’ve never seen someone who looks like you win, where does the confidence come from?
I remember Emma Grede said on one of her podcasts that she knew how big to dream and how valid her dreams are through watching Oprah.
Someone has to go first.
Whether you like them or not... They’ve expanded what’s possible for everyone watching.
Maybe that’s why representation matters.
Not because everyone should become rich.
But because seeing someone break a ceiling makes ceilings feel breakable.
Success is contagious. Not financially. Mentally.
So no...
I’m not saying worship the rich.
I’m saying stop treating wealth itself like a crime.
Study success with discernment.
Don’t let resentment rob you of inspiration.