The wealth gap fundamentally comes down to asset class and time-to-scale. Ramsay built brick-and-mortar restaurants in the 1990s-2000s when celebrity chef branding was still novel and exclusive—he locked in premium real estate, high-margin fine dining, and franchise licensing deals before the market saturated. Mythical Kitchen, by contrast, launched in the YouTube era (2016) when the platform was already crowded with creators fighting for attention in a race-to-the-bottom ad-rev model. Even with $2M annual YouTube revenue, that's a fraction of what a single Michelin-starred Ramsay restaurant pulls in per year.