Trigger words: succeed success
Indicator sentences: The problem with this is that youre measuring sucess as being in the top 1%.
Negotiation parts: Unless we changed to a communistic utopian society then there are always be a wealth gap. There are plenty of lesser goals that you can achieve and still consider yourself successful. Everyone measures wealth as success or we wouldn't keep count. If there is score it is a competition and therefore someone has to be winning. I'm working hard at making just enough money to open my own business, probably slip back into poverty but have grand adventures along the way. I'll feel way more sucessful when I'm following my dreams than I'm currently feel with my relatively high income. If wealth is the only thing that matters, then yes I suppose Bill Gates is the only person that is "winning". That doesn't mean that the other 7 billion people are all "losing", or that hard work doesn't move you along the scale of wealth in meaningful ways.
Trigger words: Hard work hard work
Indicator sentences: I need to know how you want to define hard work. Hours worked? Education level/GPA? (Education and GPA are certainly correlated with wealth, but I don't think it's controversial to say your GPA will go up if you work harder).