For Jonathan Duhamel, the roadtoriches meant dropping out of a finance degree program at the University of Quebec in Montreal to concentrate on playing poker.
Centuries of emotional conditioning and pent up demand will stimulate the demand for the gold fund as investors hope to participate in the roadtoriches by owning gold.
The idea that using borrowed money to buy assets is the smart roadtoriches might lose currency, changing attitudes to home ownership as well as to parts of the finance sector such as private equity.