Your Kids Can Build the Future, If You Let Them.
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I've been obsessed with this uncomfortable realization: 90+ percent of people I met in my life are preparing kids for the wrong outcomes. Most parents guide them toward "good jobs" and "stable careers," or "comfortable life", but very few for the chance to have an independent, high agency life. And there is no high agency life if you still work because you have to, not because you want to.
I was born in a communist country where wealth creation was forbidden, ridiculed as something wrong for society. I get where this mindset comes from. But ask me how was the life during that time. And even China—still communist, yet they changed this one thing, end encourage entrepreneurship at scale. Now they have 6.2 million millionaires,160x multiplier in 22 years.. People think differently when they're allowed to.
So the question for every parent should be: How can I help my kids be wealthy (and I'm not talking about being spoiled), so they can do in their life what they want, not building a life around work and survival or comfort?
The Data Nobody Wants to Talk About
I started researching how wealth was actually created throughout history. From 1975 to 2022, the US went from 180,000 millionaires to 22.7 million. Globally, we hit 60 million millionaires today.
And guess what. How many got wealthy through salaries?
Almost none. Traditional career advice gives kids almost zero chance at an independent life. Even Silicon Valley employees they got rich, because they has shares in those companies, not because of the salaries.
This was my big a-ha moment: I know so many talented people who worked their entire careers creating wealth for someone else. Not because they lacked ability. They just never understood the actual structure. Employees who rent their time for money will almost never get rich. Founders own systems. And AI is making systems infinitely more valuable than time.
Look, I get it—not everybody will be a founder. But at least understand this: if you're creating value for a company, you should get compensated with something that gives you leverage if it succeeds. Equity. Ownership. A piece of the system you're building. Not just a salary.
The Opportunity Right in Front of Us
Last week, I wrote about DeepMind's CEO predicting a 10x productivity increase for kids who immerse themselves in AI tools. Think about what that means.