Topic: Poor and middle class as a mentality - page 10. (Read 2009 times)

I think people who are born into rich families, they just make things easier for their children and that's not a bad thing.

but it all back again from that person it does not guarantee he will be successful just because he was born in a rich family. this is an exception if his family are super rich.

I've heard some good quote from tik tok (show me your friend and i show you who you are) the point is the environment that influences people's lives.

Some people are born rich or moderately rich, some are born middle class and some are born poor or extremely poor. All these conditions come along with a set of survival guides that the parents, relatives and even teachers will pass along as a map of life. For example, in a school of a country that does not give opportunity to its people, where most of the students are poor, it is unlikely that the teachers will induce them to think big or have big dreams...more likely they will aim to keep them apart from drugs, avoid problems with the government and try to imbue some basic skill for life. The ultra-poor do not even get that - which actually may be better.

In a preppy school, where most of the students are rich-born, the conversation is quite different. Culture, life, opportunity, spirit-de-corps and class mentality are imbued in the same manner, so the kids will somehow justify in their minds that they have the right to be rich even if they have not done anything for anyone in their lives - perhaps not even for themselves - because of some Darwinian property of cosmos.

As a result, the poor and even middle class have to jump over one real barrier, their lack of funds, and more importantly, like the Elephant that learns young that he cannot break the chains and never tries again, over their own state of mind, their own prison set by the terms of those who trying to help taught them to avoid anything but doing the same that keeps them poor.

El Sistema (which translates to The System) is a publicly financed, voluntary sector, music-education program, founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu. It later adopted the motto "Music for Social Change." El Sistema-inspired programs provide what the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies describes as "free classical music education that promotes human opportunity and development for impoverished children."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema

While this might be true in your early years, if you live in a country where university is free, you are in a much better position. There are countries with an excellent educational system that is not based on money. You can get a very good Bachelor degree without spending much money. For the post grad education you might need to spend some more money, but at this point it should be possible to get financial support. And the rich kids can't do much about it if you study hard you will succeed. Good connections can help you get a position after university, but it comes down to your skills to keep that job and climb up the corporate ladder.

When a kid grows with people who just keep toiling without talking about getting richer and grows in an environment where he isn't taught about improving the quality of life, he will remain as-is for he may find comfort in it because he feels he isn't alone. But if a poor kid is brought to a new environment where he is influenced to learn economics, inventions, and finding solutions, he will find that achievement makes him feel good.

It's all about the environment that changes the mentality of a growing kid. And then he will probably aim to marry a beautiful girl from a richer family.

Thats the reality if you're born poor or rich. I remember having a classmate (in middle school) from a well-off family, our teacher is nice to him and you can notice the difference on how the teacher treated other kids and this particular boy, its unfair.

Anyway our mindset depends on what's our status in reality, but even we are born from a poor family it doesnty mean we dont have a chance to change what we used to be. There's an education as the stepping stone and though the teachings are different compared to rich people, the point is how we drive ourselves after the lesson that we learned.

In fact, with the exception of some really difficult things, all other restrictions are in our head, in our thoughts, in relation to events and entities. Including money and wealth. Stay for a short time in a very poor family - what do adults talk about, what do children teach? Learn to BE POOR! They do not teach how to increase money, how to accumulate, invest, learn and earn using knowledge! And this poverty is mental or even "genetic", and it is almost impossible to change it.

For example, in a school of a country that does not give opportunity to its people, where most of the students are poor, it is unlikely that the teachers will induce them to think big or have big dreams...more likely they will aim to keep them apart from drugs, avoid problems with the government and try to imbue some basic skill for life. The ultra-poor do not even get that - which actually may be better.

Poverty Is Worse For Kids Than Being Born To A Crack-Using Mother

July 23, 2013

A decades-long study has found almost no differences between babies born to a crack mother and those born to a non-addicted mother — when the two groups are matched up by their socioeconomic status.
Both groups of low-income children were at a significant disadvantage when compared to an average child, which means that being born into poverty had more of an impact on that child's IQ scores and long-term accomplishment than did being born to a drug-addicted mother.

https://www.businessinsider.com/crack-baby-myth-debunked-2013-7

Some people are born rich or moderately rich, some are born middle class and some are born poor or extremely poor. All these conditions come along with a set of survival guides that the parents, relatives and even teachers will pass along as a map of life. For example, in a school of a country that does not give opportunity to its people, where most of the students are poor, it is unlikely that the teachers will induce them to think big or have big dreams...more likely they will aim to keep them apart from drugs, avoid problems with the government and try to imbue some basic skill for life. The ultra-poor do not even get that - which actually may be better.

In a preppy school, where most of the students are rich-born, the conversation is quite different. Culture, life, opportunity, spirit-de-corps and class mentality are imbued in the same manner, so the kids will somehow justify in their minds that they have the right to be rich even if they have not done anything for anyone in their lives - perhaps not even for themselves - because of some Darwinian property of cosmos.

As a result, the poor and even middle class have to jump over one real barrier, their lack of funds, and more importantly, like the Elephant that learns young that he cannot break the chains and never tries again, over their own state of mind, their own prison set by the terms of those who trying to help taught them to avoid anything but doing the same that keeps them poor.

For example, in a school of a country that does not give opportunity to its people, where most of the students are poor, it is unlikely that the teachers will induce them to think big or have big dreams...more likely they will aim to keep them apart from drugs, avoid problems with the government and try to imbue some basic skill for life. The ultra-poor do not even get that - which actually may be better.

Some people are born rich or moderately rich, some are born middle class and some are born poor or extremely poor. All these conditions come along with a set of survival guides that the parents, relatives and even teachers will pass along as a map of life. For example, in a school of a country that does not give opportunity to its people, where most of the students are poor, it is unlikely that the teachers will induce them to think big or have big dreams...more likely they will aim to keep them apart from drugs, avoid problems with the government and try to imbue some basic skill for life. The ultra-poor do not even get that - which actually may be better.

In a preppy school, where most of the students are rich-born, the conversation is quite different. Culture, life, opportunity, spirit-de-corps and class mentality are imbued in the same manner, so the kids will somehow justify in their minds that they have the right to be rich even if they have not done anything for anyone in their lives - perhaps not even for themselves - because of some Darwinian property of cosmos.

As a result, the poor and even middle class have to jump over one real barrier, their lack of funds, and more importantly, like the Elephant that learns young that he cannot break the chains and never tries again, over their own state of mind, their own prison set by the terms of those who trying to help taught them to avoid anything but doing the same that keeps them poor.