The funny thing is that you seem to think you've achieved something significant with your work. Even if it was 3x, 270k, it's small potatoes. Value accrues most to those who can insert themselves at a nexus where a lot of money flows, where siphoning off a small percentage adds up to a large absolute gain. Typically, it's through getting other people to work for you, or owning a lot of capital, or selling large quantities of something that has low marginal costs.
TL;DR: the way you crack the 1% or 0.01% is not by working hard, but by getting other people to work hard. Which may or may not be hard work. Whatever the case may be, merit has little to do with it; it's all about scarce resources in high demand, which is a metric free of moral values.
TL;DR: the way you crack the 1% or 0.01% is not by working hard, but by getting other people to work hard. Which may or may not be hard work. Whatever the case may be, merit has little to do with it; it's all about scarce resources in high demand, which is a metric free of moral values.