How To Be a Billionaire

We are currently in a battle as old as civilization itself: how societies are built to keep certain people in their place, how our systems suppress and devalue the very people who have the potential to change the world.

It’s a pattern that repeats throughout history, and we’re still living in its shadow. Imagine this: you’re a child, five years old, bright-eyed, and full of curiosity. You haven’t yet learned to doubt your own thoughts or question the way your mind works. Everything you see is new, fascinating, and full of possibility. You are, as a NASA study from 1968 might put it, a creative genius. But then, you enter school — a place designed not to nurture that curiosity but to crush it, to fit you into a mold that will make you easier to control, easier to manage.

The system tells you, subtly and overtly, that creativity is not a gift. It’s a problem. And if you can’t find a way to suppress it yourself, the system is more than happy to help. The message is clear: your daydreams and wild ideas are distractions, your refusal to conform a defect. Over time, many children learn to comply. But for those who can’t — those who hold onto their creativity, their big-picture thinking — the story takes a different, more painful turn. These children grow up feeling out of place, told that their difference makes them flawed. They are the ones who don’t fit in, who are labeled as…