Unless you're some kind of wierdo that doesn't like the word moist or you think LeBron vs MJ is a reasonable comparison to make, knowing the game dynamics are completely different for their respective eras, or whatever.
I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don't get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.
I don't want to be rich, as to even try to do so I'd have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I'm rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.
May I suggest Michael Lucas' 'Cashflow for Creators'. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.
I kinda don't fit in both. I need reasonable steady income/wealth (as soon as it covers food, a car, an apartment, gym, some clothes, ... for me and some relatives) so I can do other stuff.
This will be centered around volunteering in different ways (open source, research, ...) without fearing going homeless the moment I disagree with someone.
Given my low cost geo location, I am closer to this than ever.
I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same