The secret is compounded earnings. If you save aggressively when you are young, the compounded growth is amazing. Just the growth of my investments last year was over 4 times my annual salary.
Yep compound interest over time. I really like the idea of having all young workers earning paychecks to be automatically enrolled in savings or investment plans. Kids should be taught some courses in school as well as at home on how to handle finanes. Ignorance is poverty and government dependence meaning taxpayers footing the bills for lazy incompetents.