If you're rich you can afford to gamble, lose and try again.
If you're poor, you can gamble, win, and then have to spend your winnings helping out your family and community. Like, paying for the operation your uncle needs but couldn't afford, or helping mom's friend from church avoid losing her home.
This is a reason that a lot of poor-person owned businesses don't grow. They may start strong, but then the business owner has trouble continuing to invest.
Not unless you do it outside a golden palace that abstracts your money into vouchers and chips.
But generally wealthy people make more gambles in business, partnership, accountability, other people's lives and social welfare, and the general stability of the world.
Like say becoming an arms dealer then paying the cost of a F-150 economy package to a couple senators and having them spend their endless war chests with no audits or oversight on some missiles to kill some goat farmers or something.
Or creating a pesticide with the upside of remaining active in soil for 4 or 5 centuries (and recycling in the human liver for up to a year after exposure) and having it produced in an impoverished southern town and then exported to French Polynesia so they can continue to grow cloned banana trees.
Or like taking doctors on nice yacht lunches and golf trips and telling them yes you really have developed a non addictive opioid.
I disagree. The serious answer is you have to be the one person that gets lucky.
Take 1024 people each with $1000. They all play roulette and go all in every round, half on black half on red. After 10 rounds, 1023 people have lost all their money, and one has won a million dollars.
The person who "made it" didn't do anything different, or play a +EV game. He just got lucky.
Some madlads still do. Retro City Rampage (which is already over 10 years old now, damn) was ported to the NES, so that's some 6502 Assembly work there.
Image is actually cut off. What's missing is below each person there's a swimming pool. For poor people it's filled with water, for successful it's filled with money.