Impactating your generation

Confucius and Lao Tzu weren't the richest men in china in their time but they are still remembered.Socrates ,Plato and Aristotle weren't the richest men in ancient Greece but they will always be remembered for their contributions to science and philosophy.Shakespeare wasn't the richest in his time but his name is indelible in the sand of time.
Most children of this generation know nothing about Rockfeller who was the richest man in the last century but we can never forget Michael Faraday,Albert Einstein,Thomas Edison because they made a specific mark in their generation that form's the basis of modern technology.
Let's come to our current society and vicinity.Most Nigerian youth's have no idea who Sir Louis ojukwu was.he was the richest Nigerian trader in the 1930's and 40's but Wole Soyinka would never be forgotten as long as literature continues to exist because he has made a mark that neither time nor event's can erase.Mahathma Ghandi was never the richest Indian yet he controlled India because he has developed his mental faculties to produce overwhelming ideologies.no one really remembers the richest Greek in the time of Plato ,the richest European in the time of Shakespeare or even the richest in the time of Isaac Newton but these mentioned characters names will never be washed away with the flood of time because they took time to acquire knowledge which was converted into devices for dissolving man's inevitable challenges.
Bill Gates would never be forgotten because he acquired knowledge first which later converted into wealth.
Many youths today are getting disillusioned by the waves of insanity blowing through this jet age that they are willing to get wealth at the expense of knowledge they fail to note that the parameters used for measuring wealth would never have come into existence if people didn't pay the price to research and obtain knowledge. Footprints in the sand of time are not made by merely acquiring wealth aimlessly but thoroughly creating useful ideas which will serve as basis for further discoveries. We cannot live forever but we can create something that will.