Is it that the rich have already wealth the day they are born? Have savings and investment?
While the poor doesn't have any of those?
Hello OP, Some rich people today weren't even born into a rich family, but they strived hard and believed that they were going to build wealth and riches for themselves, which they finally did. Most of these rich people who were not born into rich homes disciplined themselves, became time conscious, were dedicated to the work they found could be a breakthrough, were consistent in doing the right thing that gave them hope, etc.
To build wealth is not so easy, but to spend the money is very easy, and when one is not conscious of their spending habits and is not conservative in their financial life style, they become prone to remaining in the poor stage or perhaps trying to maintain the middle class stage over and over again, because they make the money and spend it wastefully (unwisely).
From my understanding of some life situations, to be poor or to be rich is based on some factors, such as;
- Environmental influences
- Friends' influence
- Family influence
- Morals learned from childhood
- Health issues
- Conflict issues
- Life challenges and bad luck
Depending on the environment in which an individual grows up, if it is an
environment where the people living around are reluctant towards becoming better in life, the person can also decide to be reluctant and accept what ever the people around them tell them.
Friends are also something that can either encourage or discourage you to do a thing or not. If one has friends who don't work, they will definitely want to influence you and discourage you from working. Some
parents would always strive hard to feed their children from childhood into youth; they wouldn't encourage them to work, and they wouldn't advise them how important it is to note that one day they will need to take up responsibility for themselves. Some people try so hard to earn an income to build wealth gradually, but along the line they may be faced with some serious
health issues that can suck up all the money they have managed to realize, and when they become well again, they have to start from scratch again. Some people just manage to save up enough money to start a business or invest in something good, but if a serious
conflict happens in that business area, it can cause the business to shut down. I don't know if some of you will agree with me that life is sometimes unfair to some people; no matter how hard they try to make things work out for them, they are always faced with one challenge after another.
No matter how determined someone is, despite having a good mindset to create wealth from scratch, if that person is faced with some life challenges, they can easily or forcefully give up (I will give an example of that). One guy in my place just started his business in 2019, and he was really making progress, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, this guy exhausted all his business funds before the pandemic ended. After the end of the pandemic, he started from scratch to build a new business, but his shop caught fire at night due to some electrical issues, and before the fire was put out, the whole stock in that shop was almost burnt. His landlord still asked him to refinance the shop, so the guy became bankrupt again, and as I write in this forum now, after the guy relocated from the city back to his village since 2021, he's not back till now.
We all know the quote "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" I heard this quote when I was in high school now I'm grown up. I always wondering why?
OP, back to the quote, I used to believe in that quote, but now I disagree with it. You will say this guy is crazy, but the reason I disagree with that quote is because someone can be born into a rich home—the dad or mom may be rich—but after the death of their parents, the child can mismanage the whole wealth and return to nothing (bankruptcy). A rich man or woman who is priveleged to inherit their relatives wealth can be foolish, and in the process, all the wealth will vanish; there have been cases like that.
The poor man can decide one day that he or she is tired of suffering. He may engage himself in what others are doing to gain wealth, and along the way, luck might shine upon him. He will gladly embrace any opportunity that he may encounter, and when the money comes his way, he will definitely know how to manage it because he has had bad experience (experience teaches someone lessons).
The rich will only get richer if he or she truly understands what it takes to build wealth, how to protect it, how to generate more wealth, how to develop good financial management skills, or possibly has a good hired financial manager that can help them. The poor can also become poorer if they refuse to try any positive thing that can improve their lives. Do you agree with me that there are some poor people that sometimes get convinced within themselves that if they don't beg from others they can't feed; some also believe they need to pick pockets before they can feed; some also believe that it's only their uncle or aunty whom they depend on who can feed them for life; those are the classes of poor people who will ever remain poor unless they realize themselves and have a rethink.