Originally Posted by ArtificialTraffic

Word of the wise man. Very wise.

Even if you're not born as some genius, you can work your ass to achieve something.
Today is the best period, if you're born in some shithole with huge unemployment, you can buy a few $ ticket and move to any city.

The richest person I know (20-30M$) had been born smart but into family of alcoholics. He didn't even had single Lego during his childhood.
But he did jump on any opportunity comming his way and was not afraid to work 15 hours/day, 30 days/month.

The best advantage of era we live in is that something change or something new appears each day. 200 years ago, when you've been born as farmer, you will die as farmer.

Few years ago, you could be broke and suddenly you could make living mining Bitcoins because you stumbled upon this opportunity early.
Today, you can be broke and tomorrow you can find unsaturated niche, or a website.

Remember Flappy bird? You don't need team of programmers, salesmen, marketing ... you need idea, even a stupid one and you can shine.

But as times are changing constantly, opportunities come & go ... you need to keep your eyes open and don't rely on current biz you have.