In our country, this is the most common tradition or belief. While we're young, we were taught to study hard and finish schooling, and get a stable job. Because once we have already acquired a stable job, we will start earning and improve our lives. And create consistent progress, until we end up getting rich and enjoy the best things in life.
But I don't think we are getting align with it. Instead of working to earn and get rich, why are majority now end up struggling in life? Honestly, what I'm seeing right now is that we work to survive, not to make money and get rich in the process. Could this be the real possibility of life? Or we are just blinded by fantasies in life? Or is it because working alone is never sufficient enough to make riches in life, but we need various investments to achieve success and get wealthy in the long run?
I know different opinions and ideas may arise, but I'll be more willing to read and reflect each of it.
It's the conditioning that the society has put us through, making us believe form a young age that the one way to get through life is to get through the schooling system with top grades and get a well paying job after, our minds become wired to satisfy this conditioning without trying to move against it, we are wired to avoid poverty and this is why we chase wealth, every day we see people trying to get more money so that they don't get broke, this leads to us trying to escape something for the rest of our lives instead of actually living life to it's fullest, we shouldn't chase wealth because we don't want to get broke, we should chase wealth because we want to grow financially, to most people there is no difference between the two but a more critical look at it will show you that your success sometimes depends on your mentality.
it is the society that wires us, and the majority of the population does not strive to get wealth due to the so-called "conditioning". They chase it because the margin for error is shrinking. The dream of the middle class of the 20th century (study, job, pension) died. A degree today costs you debt more than it costs you security. So the conditioning did not simply force people into the system. It also left them stuck in a system that is not working the way it promised
An interesting twist to what you said is in the way people mix up escaping poverty with financial growth because they both tend to appear the same on the outside. Work, save, hustle, repeat. The distinction manifests itself only after a certain time: one mindset becomes stable, the other grows. Expansion requires not only mentality but also access to opportunity. However sophisticated your thinking may be, you cannot accumulate wealth in an economy in which property is hoarded by those who got into the game decades before you
A truer discussion, then, why can it be that only the minority can grow structurally easier as the majority has to think in survival mode? Until that gap is addressed, telling people to "shift mentality" risks sounding like moral advice given to people in economic quicksand