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." 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.
You really don't need to be rich to invest, which I agree, but I think before investing there are things you need to consider, which to me the most important is the risk of losing your money. You also need to have savings before you can invest, at least if your investment fails you have something to fall back too. So I think this is really the fear why most people don't invest when they don't have much, rather they wait to have big savings before they think of investment. I really don't blame them, because someone that don't have much would not like to lose the little they have. Like I said earlier you don't have to think of the profit you want to make alone, but also think of the loss. I will conclude that the reason most average people don't invest is fear of losing it all and starting all over again.