Hearing testimonies from different sources, I can only conclude that "You don’t need to be rich to invest, but you need to invest to be rich."
What if I tell you that you need to be rich to invest, will you agree with me? Being rich doesn't mean you need to have the money, but you need to have the mindset of a rich person to be able to be rich. The mindset of the rich will help you to invest the little you have to be able to be rich in the future. So invariably what you are doing is planing to be rich when you don't even have enough money to be called a rich person. A person that don't have rich mindset can not plan ahead.
Riches aside, investment can increase your financial freedom, but the problem with most people is procrastination, they want this BIG capital to invest, but it is not like that.
Yes that's just it, procrastination is the reason why most people fail to succeed. Sometimes it's lack of patience and relentlessness.
From real estate, stocks to crypto, we have seen people buying their assets that were deem worthless, but suddenly became their source of wealth. I remember someone who couldn't afford a land at the city center but wanted to invest. He bought it at a rural area where he could buy over 1 acre. Not long after, the government decided to build a Federal university in that locality. Right now, a plot of land there can buy a plot of land in the city center that he couldn't afford, that is the power of investing.
In the case of this story I see that luck played a big role to his success. Although he may have become rich from those lands he bought in the rural areal in the future by appreciation of the land but not so surden. But however it is good to have 4 sight to succeed. And this involves being smart.