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It is like, the more poorer you are, the longer you stay poor.

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I would not say so. I could go flat out broke today and I would still have skills, experience, character and a university degree. So compared to someone without any education or experience, relativistically speaking, I'd be back on my feet much sooner. $0 in my pockets would be a short-lived inconvenience, at most.

It's statistically proven, that people who gain the most profit on earth are also the wealthiest ones.
Poor people have many times less chances to make profit, because they have to spend all their money for basic needs (food, home, mobility).
There's just nothing left to invest.

What you say is true, makrospex; however, we don't participate in threads like this in order to emphasize some kind of inevitability in our station (however humble our station might be), right?

Wouldn't you conclude that BTC provides many more options to many more peeps, in terms of investment opportunities than other traditional avenues of investment?

Of course, no one here should be suggesting that peeps not food and shelter themselves prior to investing, yet if anyone wants to attempt to improve their lot in life, they should be attempting to make some efforts, even if that is ONLY the ability to muster up $5 per month to invest in bitcoin. In the long run, if they can hold and build their investment for at least 5 years, they are going to likely profit from such investment into BTC strategy, even if what they are able to successfully carry out is merely a very modest investment strategy. Right?

When you look at the past of Bitcoin, yes. And you can expect continuation, yes.
Remember, we're geeks (at least i am), but the majority of the poor is fighting to survive each day. Nobody of these people have the tools and abilities to gain knowledge about and also to aquire bitcoins. Neither they have the education to understand or gain access to knowledge. When you'd give most people a paper wallet with a coin in it, they would laugh at you and yell that the paper can't buy food for them.
The power of Fiat. I doubt anything can break it, in near-future terms.
In Africa, most poor elevated their wealth just because of CELLPHONES and this trend continues. I consider this at least the start of possibilities to bring bitcoin to (former) poor people.

Well, we know that there are all kinds of dumb fucks out there who do not appreciate the value of bitcoin, and they need not be poor in order to be dumb fucks about seeing the value of either bitcoin or investing in bitcoin. I don't think that anyone, even a BTC enthusiast, should go out of their way to attempt to convince people that bitcoin is for their own good. They can figure out a plan to buy some or NOT. Bitcoin is not going to give two shits about whether the poor get into bitcoin or not, so if they fail/refuse to spend enough time to recognize and appreciate the value of investing into bitcoin, then there is only so much any of us can do to lead those horses to water and they chose not to drink.

So, of course, I understand that there are a large number of people who are neither going to recognize or to appreciate the value of bitcoin, but it is not our job to spend time trying to persuade them, perhaps beyond just pointing out to them that their is an opportunity in bitcoin that they can look into in the event that they would like to attempt to pull themselves up by their bootstraps in a time-deferred manner rather than merely seeing the world through immediate gratification and immediate needs. That is on them in terms of failure and/or refusal to look into the matter further, not you, especially once we have pointed out such an option (namely bitcoin) to them.

Oh, you mean THESE people.
100% correct.

I was meaning the people that would likely value the idea and potential of bitcoin, but just can't get hold of coins like we, and also average joe from the neighborhood could.
Ignorance, on the other hand, is a whole different story.

Also, many people are slaves to media, which just hammers them to consume rather than invest. 24/7
When i look around in my environment, i see many people that could afford investments show off their newly acquired shit, while i began to offload many of my belongings and started investing in BTC. If they knew, they would even call me an idiot. This kind of people can't be taught. They define themselves by what they buy and consume.