What is the possible shortest route to becoming rich without committing crime?

Selling your knowledge and services in wired world. If we look at history of wealth creation during past 30 yeras it is the knowledge which has created wealth rather than anything else.

Besides winning the Lotto, I think starting your own business and selling it and moving on to the next. If you are a skilled businessman you can build or improve businesses and you can use your sales skill to interest investors...there are always people looking to make a quick buck by investing in someone that knows more than they do!

In Amerika you could own a bank, some say that's the best way to rob one.

One route is to sell real estate. If one is prepared to work very hard for a period of years... and I mean really, really hard, then you will have the means to invest in property yourself as well as a good income. Often the work will mean a poor family life as you will be too busy working.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.