Eight books promise to make you rich. Every single author won — and that's exactly the problem.

The lie isn't buried in any one chapter. The lie is the premise on the cover: that winning the game qualifies you to explain it. Survivors are the worst people to ask how a game actually works, because they can't see everyone who did the same things they did and still lost.

So this episode doesn't summarize eight books on wealth. It puts them in a room and lets them argue — and they do, violently. Passive indexing against the "fastlane." Never give up equity against borrow-to-build. Quiet frugality against the swing for the fences. We burn off the survivorship bias and keep only what survives the contradiction: the one mechanism the serious books actually share, underneath all the noise.

In this episode:

• The Simple Path to Wealth — J. L. Collins
• The Richest Man in Babylon — George S. Clason
• Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
• Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger
• The Millionaire Next Door — Stanley & Danko
• The Millionaire Fastlane — M. J. DeMarco
• How to Get Rich — Felix Dennis
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson / Naval Ravikant

Curated by AI, edited by a human.