5) that would take a lot of work. You can’t become a billionaire by just exploiting your workforce.

6) is 3. To exploit enough to get to a million is doable, a billion is simply impossible on your own.

7) realistically number 3 again. If you exploit the masses on that grand of a scale, you either go to prison or you have immunity.

There is a huge gap between a million and a billion. Sure, you can make money exploiting people, but a billion? That’s $1,446 per hour 24 hours per day 7 days a week for 80 years. That’s not calculating for expenses, overhead, taxes, startups, etc. the point is that the concept of a billionaire is almost exclusively reserved for high caliber criminals. It can’t be achieved in a lifetime without taking extremely illegal measures while owning several people in positions of power.