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You forgot to exclude people who spend all day spamming quick tournaments.
And people who are more efficient at building teams.
Expecting to have a free ride to the top of the heap is simply unrealistic. You can work hard at the game, you can play all the angles, or you can work hard at your business/job/profession and buy your way to the top level.
But you aren't getting there without an investment of some sort. Or did you think there was a guy out there just waiting to give you 10% ownership of Amazon?