Quote from: DrBeer on Today at 09:55:42 PM

Quote from: paxmao on June 28, 2021, 11:00:10 PM

Some people are born rich or moderately rich, some are born middle class and some are born poor or extremely poor. All these conditions come along with a set of survival guides that the parents, relatives and even teachers will pass along as a map of life. For example, in a school of a country that does not give opportunity to its people, where most of the students are poor, it is unlikely that the teachers will induce them to think big or have big dreams...more likely they will aim to keep them apart from drugs, avoid problems with the government and try to imbue some basic skill for life. The ultra-poor do not even get that - which actually may be better.

In a preppy school, where most of the students are rich-born, the conversation is quite different. Culture, life, opportunity, spirit-de-corps and class mentality are imbued in the same manner, so the kids will somehow justify in their minds that they have the right to be rich even if they have not done anything for anyone in their lives - perhaps not even for themselves - because of some Darwinian property of cosmos.

As a result, the poor and even middle class have to jump over one real barrier, their lack of funds, and more importantly, like the Elephant that learns young that he cannot break the chains and never tries again, over their own state of mind, their own prison set by the terms of those who trying to help taught them to avoid anything but doing the same that keeps them poor.

In fact, with the exception of some really difficult things, all other restrictions are in our head, in our thoughts, in relation to events and entities. Including money and wealth. Stay for a short time in a very poor family - what do adults talk about, what do children teach? Learn to BE POOR! They do not teach how to increase money, how to accumulate, invest, learn and earn using knowledge! And this poverty is mental or even "genetic", and it is almost impossible to change it.

It is worrying that the poor do have the wrong way of thinking and that they get in their environment. Poor environment doesn't teach how to
manage money in order to make more money, therefore poor people will always spend money if given large amounts of money. Actually the key
to eradicating poverty is how to improve the education system, so that the way of thinking of the poor can change.