Which other reason do you think has kept people poor aside the economy and the government?
Comfort zone is one manipulative phenomenon that have kept many young men out their in abject poverty but they still can't come to realization because their current state make them comfortable with what it provides and as such they fear to take risk because they believe that they could risk losing what they are enjoying where they are if they venture into new or foreign grounds but meanwhile they could have being able to achieve 5x much more if they could have taken the bold step of doing the uncommon thing.
Being trapped in a comfort zone is an advantage that must be enjoyed, but what is wrong is that currently many young people are trapped in a comfort zone that does not give them any benefit other than health which I think is affected. In my environment, there are many young people like this, every day they gather to spend time playing games that do not produce any benefits, even willing to stay up all night just to play them, this has become a culture in my environment. This makes them reluctant to move or step forward even though it is for their own good, sometimes they have to experience an incident that makes them aware, such as losing both parents because with this they will feel the difficulty of surviving without attention from both parents. At times like this, they will start looking for work, sometimes taking risks to survive.
Many young people misuses the advantage of finding themselves in the comfort zone environment. People in comfort zones are likely to easily build a good future for themself if they so desire because they have almost all available resources that would support their every move to invest in themself but rather they choose pleasurable activities that just make their day fun and enjoyable. Unlike some of us who had to work our ass right from a very young age after acknowledging the reality that there was nothing onna platter available anywhere for us.