This is not bending anything, this is just being smart, if you have the gift of making the money.
However the investments need to also be good, not just look good. Being an investor means that you need to stimulate the economy, being a speculator in a crypto market is hardly what we are talking about. It makes money and others are doing it but it does the company selling the shares no good. In order to win by speculating someone else needs to lose. And it's not going to be rich people usually.
So invest in a services company, invest in a webdesign company, invest in something that has a future. My 2 cents :P
Then, what's bending the rules called ?
I don't know the definition. Rules are either followed or not.
Having a regular job is not a rule. You can be an investor, follow a liberal profession, be a freelancer and still follow the rules.
If having a regular job would be a life rule, then life would be a prison for some :D
I know lots of people who work without a regular schedule.
And as for what we have talked before, you can watch this is you have the time, I swear that you will like the conclusions:
It's not all about that, but you will find some information about how the poor are less poor since 1965...
It's just misconceptions that we are locked in poverty globally.