Surely the other point is that "wanting to be rich"
isn't a good start.
"wanting to be successful, create something useful and
have fun" is a far better mindset to have.
I don't disagree with you, but it's a pretty easy mentality for us in the west to adopt.
The author is in India, where a very significant portion of the population sleeps on the street and even the ones a notch above them live in abject poverty compared to even our lowest classes[1].
I suspect "being rich" for an Indian means something quite different than for us, and might very well mean a middle-class existence in our terms.
I don't think the author is from India. I have to admit I never heard of him before but "Max Klein" doesn't sound like an Indian name to me and his domain is maxkle.in which is clearly using the .in TLD so that his name can be the full domain name of his blog and not because it is a blog from India.
The author is in India, where a very significant portion of the population sleeps on the street and even the ones a notch above them live in abject poverty compared to even our lowest classes[1].
I suspect "being rich" for an Indian means something quite different than for us, and might very well mean a middle-class existence in our terms.
[1] GDP per capita in India is $1,124 a year.