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You don't, the accumulation of wealth is a zero-sum game. There's no way to "win" that doesn't involve others losing.
Plus, nobody gets rich by honest labor. Your ethical friends are almost as far from actual riches as the rest of us. Even I "Work with hundreds of millions if not billions" and my paycheck barely covers the bills every month.
What you're asking for is a demarcation between the bourgeois and the petite-bourgeois, but the difference is only one of scale. Small business owners enrich themselves with the profits their employees produce, while Bezos and Musk have a thousand times more employees to exploit.
The two people I describe do most of the work. The lawyer is the one who defends all of the cases and the insurance one creates all the formulas. They’re not extracting anything. Both are helping the poor, the only loser is the corpos.
Hence why your friends aren't "rich". They might be a lot better off than the average person who works for a living, but it sounds like they don't exploit enough people to quit working and live off other people's labor in perpetuity.
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