Learn from them. Clearly some of your friends are doing things right so try to absorb "knowledge", or even get one to invest in an idea of yours perhaps.
Otherwise, find some new friends and stop torturing yourself.
Otherwise, find some new friends and stop torturing yourself.
I do not want to copy that. I do not want to support this way of living.
(Also, I do not think I'm whining. I'm in the top income bracket in my country, have some talent and was gifted with some brain at birth and healthiness. But, you know, most of these things are not my doing - I was lucky many times over, and often I see people working 100x harder than me not ending up nearly in the same spot. Is that a good society?)
It’s not fair and it’s not meant to be fair. It’s meant to allocate limited resources in an efficient manner. Doing something people don’t care about or producing something people don’t care about, get nothing back. Do something people value or produce something they want and get the amount they value it back.
I’m aware that grifters exist and some people make money that shouldn’t make it like violently taking it from others that earned it or tricking people into giving away money they didn’t want to but you don’t cancel a system because it can’t run perfect. If we did that we would have to shut down public schools because a few teachers have sex with children, shut down the military because a few soldiers snapped on a civilian, and the list goes on and on.
(well, any other qualifier than being born wealthy, that's the greatest predictor of wealth after all.)
Hope OP can learn from some of his wealthy friends that acquired wealth, rather than inherited it. And if they all got it from mama and papa, then it is what it is, and OP probably should consider finding other friends if these current ones depress him.