There are many good resources you can find. But most people don't really think "I want to get rich" and optimise their lives around it. Spreadsheet or a piece of paper with a cashflow and some long term plan would be a good start. How many people do that? I think at least on some subconscious level many people know that's not what they are aiming for. They want to be around interesting people doing something meaningful and in general have fun. Acquiring wealth takes time and you can have much more fun in your 30s than in your 70s. That's regarding HN types. For people with the lowest wage striving to make the ends mee the problem is of course lack of knowledge, time to acquire it, and time to get out of this local minima.

Theoretically, money is a wonderful thing, you give people what they want they give you money. If you have a lot of money then the society owes you a lot. But we have fiat. Money is getting created out of thin air and it's not just bankers who get to be lucky, it leaks through out the society. Those with money influence gov, gov gets unlimited spending, banks happily cooperate with wealthy, and wealthy can afford actual storage of value like real estate or gold apart from their investments.

I don't believe we can fix crazily widening gap without giving people access to some real money. Gold is not very practical. Bitcoin is a great potential candidate and I think people still underestimate how great positive impact it can have on society (but big part of HN seems still butthurt about BTC, so feel free to ignore the last sentence or suggest some other solution)