Ah but you didn't work hard, you clearly profited off the backs of the working class and their hard labour to be able to buy a house, capitalist pig dog!!!!!!
To me, socialism and it's like are based on an ideology of envy and naivety - "that man can't have become rich solely because of his own hard work (naivety), he must have screwed over someone lesser than him to get where he is and that isn't fair so lets take everything from him (envy)" etc. Happily and also conversely sadly, the real world isn't that black/white and that's where the childlike naivety comes in as proponents of socialism want to believe it really is that simple to fix complex economic and social issues by simply redistributing wealth because that's "fair".
Is it possible for any man to become rich
solely because of his own work, hard or otherwise?
It might be possible, I guess, but it's probably also extremely unlikely.
Most people who do become rich do so in part by engaging the services of others, and benefit both directly and indirectly from state-run infrastructure.
Some of them benefit from state-run institutions, again either directly or through their employees.
Plus whatever they borrow/ whatever investment they receive/ etc.
Is it truly
naïve to imagine that there is not really such a thing as a 100% self-made man?
I'm also not sure what socialists you've been talking to recently who are advocating taking everything from the rich, because that sounds like hyperbole. Our current trajectory, by contrast, sees the 1% taking everything from the rest of us. And that's not hyperbole, it's where we're headed if we keep ignoring the ever-widening wealth gap, and the concentrating of all assets into the hands of the few.