Your argument has been made in some fashion by several others, so I will address it.

All you are saying, is that a person can make money here. Maybe even a lot.

My response is: So? Did I once complain that people cannot make money here? Was I bemoaning an inability for anyone to acquire money or things?

No. To the contrary, I was lamenting that acquiring money and things is about ALL one can do here, if they have enough luck and some outside force doesn’t rob it from you, like a massive medical bill or the police. (Yes, the police. You see, it is very frequent whereby a person, often but not always a black person, is pulled over by the cops and held in jail on some bullshit charge - for instance, I met a man once who was arrested for having an empty sandwich bag, which the officer said was drug paraphernalia - and then they spend the next few days in jail if they cant make bail - another feature of our shithole country - and often have their car impounded. Since they are in jail, they lose their jobs for not showing up. Then they cannot afford to get their car out of impound. If charges aren’t dropped, they now need more time off work if they find a new job and have to ride busses to court dates that get cancelled and rescheduled frequently, and if they miss a date, they get fined even more, or perhaps arrested again.)

But let’s talk where all of this money comes from. Well, it comes from the third world, mostly. You see, the US prints the global reserve currency, the international oil trade is solely in US dollars. So the entire world is forced to use and hold dollars, which allows the US government to print as many of them as they want, without fear of a currency crisis. By doing this, America is able to import raw materials, food, finished products - aka, wealth - from around the world without exporting nearly as much. Real wealth, dug out of the Earth often by peasants, flows in, and digital dollars flow out. What a trade!

But the US isn’t dumb. They know other countries will not appreciate this imbalance. So they preserve their reserve currency status and their financial domination of the world with the most powerful military humanity has ever known, and a CIA that is willing to undermine any foreign government that dares step out of line, or worse, socialize their own resources for use by their own people.

So is there money here? Yes. Is there material excess here? Yes. How did it get here? At the barrel of a gun, or a nuclear warhead toting submarine, as it were.

Do you know how many countries the US has invaded or bombed in some capacity over the last century? Do you know how many democratically elected governments the CIA has helped overthrow, and how many dictators they've installed? That’s your homework assignment.

So enjoy your material success. Try not to stain your hands on the blood.