There's a lot of truth to this, but you'll soon be shouted down by the very people you describe. Successful people--however they got there--only like to attribute it to their own very hard work.
Opportunity in life is just as beneficial as inherited wealth. You can work for years in an industry and never gain upward mobility because of a lack of personal connections that foster your growth and the insider information and support that you get from those sources, such as being fraternity brothers with a CEO, or knowing/mentoring with someone who has deeper political or financial influence since you were a child, or by having a rich mommy and daddy. Its so much about who you know, and how you start.
There have been several people with lots of money who failed by trying to buy their way into high society, without first making friends, we have all witnessed many brilliant meltdowns from Paris Hilton and others who didn't get the memo.
We need to start looking into wealth and financial stability and creating opportunities for the best ideas to succeed, not just the ideas with the best marketing campaigns. Mom and Pop is where we need to go, in terms of our future business and development outlook support to end the threats to net neutrality and shoddy/arbitrarily wrong/and unethical big businesses dominating our social landscape...
Many mom and pop shops turn into big businesses. Are we going to also have a law that prevents a business from growing to a certain size?
I also don't think I want a mom and pop store running something like cable. I don't think they would be able to keep up with service calls/support
There is much more at work in this society than whats written on paper, especially if you're reading Rich Dad Poor Dad.
You know what? If you are american you got lucky to spend 5x more resources than anyone in the first world, energy, petrol, plastics, TVs, computers, cars, whatever.
If you think about it, that is not fair!! Travel around and look at how other people lives.
And the number will become 10x,20x if you compare yourself to the majority (over the 3000billion people). You are not smarter than them, more educated or culture(the majority of Americans only speak one language, give me a break)... just lucky.
So you are rich!!, today, now. Just because you were born in the right place.
It seems that YOU want them to attribute their wealth(people richer than you) to luck, witch is a enormous fallacy, is not true, they are not lazy bastards like your prejudices want it to be(so YOUR mind could have an excuse for not working).
It is totally ok for someone to be proud of their work.