India, Aug. 20 -- An Indian entrepreneur claims that the only way to beat inflation is to build something outside of one's 9-to-5 job. Riya Upreti, founder of Fobet Media, argued that simply doing the minimum in a conventional career will not generate enough wealth to keep up with the rising cost of living.

In a LinkedIn post, Upreti backed this argument with a personal anecdote. She said that she had managed to buy two houses by the time she was 24-years-old, but her children may not even be able to afford one due to the skyrocketing real estate prices.

"I bought 2 houses at 24, but my kids might never buy one," Riya Upreti wrote on LinkedIn.

She argued that property prices have risen much faster than many people's incomes, so the tra...