Honestly I can talk about this forever, but it's incredibly chaotic. I'm not rich either.
How much money do you want?
Do you care about ethics? Do you care about having a fulfilling job that brings actual value to the world? Do you want to own a business? Do you want to do everything yourself?
If you had all that money, what would you do?
Can you do that now already, do you really need to sacrifice a lot of your years of life working for wealth, which has a decent chance of succeeding at the cost of a few years of your life?
I never perused money per se. There are things that I am truly deeply interested in and I pursued my hobby as a passion. I am incredibly good at it and I think I could achieve a living out of it, but burned out for very good reasons. This is a problem with doing what you love for a living, your values might change or the world my change. If somebody succeeds to make a living by doing what they enjoy, that's the "best case" (or a very balanced, reasonable) scenario in my opinion. I wouldn't recommend chasing money just for money, but I understand why some people would.
I believe that you people can create things so high quality and valuable that they are impossible to ignore. But I acknowledge money is unfortunately important, it buys time, and with time you can do whatever you want, as long as have health and freedom (and people seem to give away freedom, so money won't help you when the world is in flames, but I digress). Whatever you want, for example continue working on the business, which is fulfilling. If your business is not fulfilling and you only want money, then probably some regular jobs are a better option. And if you want to be manipulative and gain money by any means, then you are part of the problem.
I read a few books on entrepreneurship. Special mention to "The Millionaire Fastlane", obviously opinions vary, some people call him a grifter, I liked how he pointed out CENTS (Control, Entry, Need, Time, Scale). None of these are requirements, but those can help. I'm going to list them out from memory, but I'm also going to add a lot of my own opinions. It's worth nothing that the author does not recommend doing what you love, which I personally disagree, but I understand the viewpoint.
A lot of these are pretty obvious, but I didn't know or consider these at some point in my life.
Control - how easy is it to destroy you? Is there somebody that can just destroy you business instantly? Very often the answer is yes. Either the government, or google can shut down your YouTube channel, steam can refuse your game. Sometimes there are better or worse alternatives, but there are ways to hurt businesses.
This very often is deliberate and malicious. People fake copyright strike others, people create fake copies of websites, claim that you, the actual creator and owner, stole from them. People steal music, graphics, upload this as their own and copystrike you. It's incredibly obnoxious. This happens to everyone, big, small, new, veterans. Your favorite whatever had to deal with it too. It's incredibly demotivating. When money is involved, a lot of people lose their senses. People fight each other for scraps and vote in authoritarian people, as if that is going to help their cause.. What a fucked up world, truly.
Entry - how easy is it to copy whatever you are doing? If you do something that is easy, that anybody can copy at any moment, then it's not a good business idea. It can still work, but if you do something that is difficult, that not many people know how to do or solve some difficult problem or issue, that's a huge win. This requires incredibly knowledge of the topic and effort.
Need - do people even need this? do people want this? want and need is not the same, but.. well...
{preferably you offer something that truly helps people, it doesn't manipulate them, it doesn't scam, it makes their life better and does not make anybodies life worse. That is when you are providing value. Search or ask for problems that people have, search for complains and solve them, make their lives better. Don't create some trash and try to shove it down peoples throats, that's terrible. Even IF it makes money, that's just so selfish.
Time - the author talks about how you can decouple yourself from the business. If your job is being a teacher in some school, that requires your time. You need to be somewhere for a few hours and that's how you make money. If you create some software then you can theoretically sell it to millions of people, it doesn't require your time in the same sense as a regular job.
Scale - Can this business scale. I don't even remember much about this, I don't care enough. something about if you have a coffee shop then maybe you can open them in many other places, cities, countries. That's scaling, can your business scale. I don't care, I don't need infinite money, I just need enough to make a living doing what fulfills me (which is making the world a better place, if what I'm doing doesn't earn enough, at least I know it's something good anyway).
There are also strategies like blue ocean. Whenever sometimes new pops out and earns a lot of money, instantly people copy it and make similar stuff. This happens all the time, I see it in games a lot. Suddenly everybody wants to make that thing. Some of the copies are good, actually. But very often it's quick cash grabs. Back to blue ocean. Instead of fishing on red oceans (somewhere where everybody fishes, doing the same thing at thousands of other people are doing), find a blue ocean and fish there. This is a decent strategy. It of course might not work out or not earn enough and there are always risks. But I've seen examples of successful (games, mostly, because that's my expertise) business arise like this.
For example.. How many games are there about manipulation (not talking about Among Us, but that can indirectly teach you that), if none, maybe create a game like that (not you specifically). If it earns enough money, that's incredibly, you made money. If not, at least you created something that is truly valuable in the sense that it makes the world better. That's better than created some manipulative gambling game. At least that's my philosophy, unfortunately it's not a common one. Because people just chase this money and money and that's the only thing that matters, I got mine, fuck you. That does not make the world a better place.
That's a tiny crash course in entrepreneurship combined with a venting.
What's that? You want more venting? I got you.
AI makes things a lot worse now. I don't feel like going on an AI rant now, but people can now generate a lot very basic stuff (code, sites, programs) of low quality. And if something goes wrong, they can't fix it easily, they don't understand it, AI might not be able to fix it for whatever reason. Just care about what you do. Just understand it, why it works, how it works. This can be incredibly fulfilling. If you care about what you do, you will create higher quality stuff. Focus on solving problems.
I really could continue, but that's enough. I needed to stay awake, so this helped.
TL;DR: Be a lawyer.
