To be fair if you are a great trader then you will have a great capital eventually, but its a bull run period give or take and things are going up so it looks easier right now. If you are wondering about that then I would say working towards it is better. For example, I write here, I have a signature, and I make some money from it, which is very little ı agree, but its good enough for me, its over a thousand dollars a year, do that for 20 years and you got yourself 20 thousand, now you may say I can't wait 20 years, but you don't have to, your first thousand will become two thousand if you are good at trading, and your next thousand will make it four, and so forth, you keep trading and increase your capital that way.