On the other hand, I have a friend who is an online trader who litterally made over a million dollars in 9 months starting with a 30k and is now worth over 40 million.  

Unfortunately, my partner at the time was greedy, and wanted to ho;d out for the bigger paycheck.  

I prefer beater trucks for work because it keeps me humble, keeps my tenants thinking in not the "Greedy Landlord", makes me appreciate my nice truck when I drive it, keeps the newer truck miles down and I don't care too much about getting dings, scratches or random paint stains on it.

Trader Joes Markets, Whole Foods Markets, Walmart Stores, advance purchase entire farm projected growth organic produce on annualized contracts, due to the high demand.  

I just felt they were getting a little to greedy.  

I am also an active trader for my own personal accounts, trading a pretty wide array of asset classes; stocks, options, warrants, futures, bonds, currencies, and am just starting research in mortgage notes.I've got a few rehab deals under my belt the last couple of years, and I am looking to begin ramping up my efforts.I'll send you a Colleague Request.Regards,-Rob 

I come from a stock options investing background so I'm trying to figure out the parallels to the various strategies available to an Options trader - like call, put, straddles, butterfly, spreads etc.   

In NYC, where studios can be upwards of $1.2, I wonder the same thing -- but sometimes i see the salaries and some starting doctors are over $500,000 base + 150,000 bonus.... bankers -- front end + traders are at this... all at age 29.... real estate sales people, depending on the deals you do and who you know can make $500,000 on a few deals...

In my opinion, let them all fail, let some greedy entrepreneur (I mean that in a good way) build a new, profitable model for creating these commodities, and let the system work itself out, even if it takes a couple years.

Every industry has those that are greedy and scam people.