In the competition for wealth accumulation, high-net-worth individuals excel at leveraging "cognitive leverage" to acquire resources, while those with limited economic conditions often fall into a self-indulgent "war of time and physical exhaustion." Many ordinary people firmly believe in the simple notion that "hard work leads to wealth," equating personal value directly with the length of working hours and the intensity of labor, and even taking it for granted that "if I work overtime until dawn every day, I should get a raise."

Investment master Charlie Munger once sharply pointed out that this kind of "linear diligence" is essentially a gentle trap of class solidification—when the output per unit of time cannot achieve a qualitative leap, all hard work merely uses tactical busyness to cover up the laziness of strategic thinking. As reality has proven: if significant wealth could be accumulated solely through physical labor, then the position of the world's richest person would have long belonged to contractors, rather than business tycoons and tech magnates.