The current level that you are is a product of the people who you soround your self with because associations matters a lot, in our biology we where taught about different associations that exist in nature which includes symbiosis, mutuality and parasitism etc are different types of associations that organisms in nature undergo for them to survive
It's also true for we as humans being because we should be always be careful of the association that we find ourselves self because any association that is not impacting into you should be stopped because I am of the view that in this year that we have found ourselves if we are to make serious progress economically and others wise then take a careful evaluation of those around you and make changes if necessary
This work when you are position very well in a good society. I mean, not most often this is possible in some places. If you to change your economy situation, you don't just need to change the people around you, you change everything about you and also where you stay. In my country today, there is a reason why you see alot of people running to one particular stare, it's a place where you meet alot of people with different backgrounds and looking for better opportunities.
If you stay in a place where there is no better opportunities, changing your current phase of people around you can either make things worst or even makes you go back even more. Imagine that you are staying in a trenches and you have live all your life in trenches, how do you think changing your friends is going to make it better when you literally stay in the same place and when you consider going to another place, do you even have the networking to make that moves, life has it ways that it limit us to some things that we want to do even though the spirit is willing.