Your can be an employee to learn and then do what you want. You can stay an employee and be smart about how you build your wealth. You have to sacrifice early to reap reward later, it's just how life is and it doesn't require a whole lot of money to get started. $50 a month saved every month starting as early as you can does wonders, especially in a decent stock fund. It's the compounded earnings that will create your wealth. You are correct that everyone has choices and there is a risk/reward scenario to everything you do. Not everyone starts out in the same postion at the starting gate. It's true others are disadvantaged and they have to work harder. It may not be fair, but nothing is out of ones reach if they devise a plan and work hard. The biggest failure of American education is that they don't start teaching kids in elementary school about money and how to put it to work for ROI. Money can work on it's own to create wealth. At first, it takes a few years, but at a certain level that compounding takes off and the results are amazing.
Right on...
"It may not be fair, but nothing is out of ones reach if they devise a plan and work hard."
If a person can't find enterprise in America and succeed, they aren't looking, and if they find it, they aren't working.
And, then, yes, add sound economic finance principles and work in God's economy, not this world's (starts with the tithe for Christians). He's got a lot and He wants us to enjoy it as well share the whole good news deal with everyone else. Jesus wasn't poor, and His heart wasn't on loving money, but living good so others can see how good God is.
/preaching
The prosperity of the entire society cannot be based on compounded earnings or usury. It is based on labor, creativity and wise national policies.