1. Apply obscure math knowledge to something practical like economics.

That's all there is to it! The secret to a wealth of cash baskets is simply to contribute less to the scientific community and more to the money-making community!

Popping up for the first time in the mid-90's when we were all to busy with grunge music and seinfeld, this field has been gaining momentum ever since. It even has a cool buzzword nickname: Econophysics. It just rolls off the tongue so much better than Thermoeconomics. For even greater detail, a thorough document was recently submitted to arXiv for an upcoming entry in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science.

If you haven't already read the "Wikipediarticle" or the paper above, or given up on both because they have too many big words, it's all about Statistical Mechanics. Physicists and mathematicians love to use statistics to study of motion of a mass of particles. Along the way some broke physicist, down on his luck, finally connected the dots to the economic world and came up with a killer get-rich-quick-scheme. Well, it may not have made him rich, but it certainly spawned an interesting discipline of study.

So how are particles and dollar bills alike? Well, in nature we have the the law of conservation of energy which states matter cannot be created or destroyed. A similar law of conservation of money is argued in Dragulescu et. al. I did notice that the paper doesn't take into account the common practices of printing counterfeit money or the amount of dollar bills burned by magicians worldwide per second, but it does clearly state that the conservation of money is between individual transactions (a closed system).

The beauty of these parallels is that all the years of work physicists have spent pouring time into understanding the energies and distributions of particles can be applied to the monies and money distributions across the world.

And subsequently the lifestyles of the rich and scientific will be the hottest celebrity gossip of tomorrowland. All in all, thanks goes to the arXiv blog for pointing all this out to me because my financial future is now perfectly secure.