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The Future of Wealth: Who Will Be Rich in 2030?
Why the next generation of wealthy won’t just be techies or tycoons — but thinkers, solvers, and simplifiers.
I never thought I’d be writing about wealth prediction, but here I am. Last Tuesday, I was having coffee with my old friend Marcus — you know, the kind of catch-up where you start with “how’s life” and somehow end up solving the world’s problems three hours later.
Marcus had just sold his boutique marketing agency that specialized in sustainable brands. Nothing huge by Silicon Valley standards, but enough that he won’t be checking his bank account before buying concert tickets anymore.
“The crazy thing,” he said, dunking his biscotti for the third time, “is that I never saw this coming. Remember when we were 25 and thought we had it all figured out?”
Boy, did I ever. At 25, I was convinced that climbing the corporate ladder at my finance job was the only path to financial security. Now here I am, making a living writing and consulting — something my younger self would have dismissed as “not a real career.”
Our conversation got me thinking about wealth — not just having money, but actual wealth — and who’s going to have it by the end of this decade. I’ve been obsessing over this…
