This is one of the best of comments in this thread in the sense that each of us should be attempting to assess our own situations in terms of our financial and psychological circumstances in such a way that we are striving to build, so that with the passage of time we are more likely than not to incrementally improve our circumstances and those incremental improvements are more likely to capitalize upon themselves - even if we are likely to run into quite a few set-backs (and mistakes) along the way. Getting rich and being rich is not likely a categorical location but a journey that we can strive to reach and we may or may not end up reaching the most lofty of our goals, but if we are working towards that direction (without over doing it, hopefully), then it is more likely that we will increasingly be putting ourselves into better situations with the passage of time.. and with the more passage of time, the more measurable the ups and downs end up showing themselves to be trajectoring in the upwards direction.
Anyone can get out of the problem at hand, because one's success will depend on oneself. To get there we must know what needs to be done before making decisions to improve circumstances and improvements in our lives. By identifying before taking life-changing action, we can easily make decisions that are relevant and on target.
Being rich is not a requirement, but almost all individuals in this world want a decent and stable life. Some people perceive that wealth can bring happiness and peace in life. But if we examine it more deeply, the happiness and serenity of life lies not in how much wealth we have, but in being grateful for what we already have.
At the same time, there are no guarantees that in the long run that we will trajector our financial and psychological circumstances in the upwards direction with the passage of time, yet it seems that if we are striving to learn from our mistakes and to NOT be too radical in terms of taking too many risks (taking some risks is likely a good thing as long as we either place ourselves in a position to take risks or assess ourselves to be in a position to be able to tolerate the risks).
Basically, anyone has ever made a mistake, someone made a mistake more dominantly because they didn't know or had never had experience doing certain things. In this position we must think wisely, what is needed is action to do something so that the same mistake does not occur. Instead of regretting what keeps us in the shadow of past mistakes for too long, it's better to use those mistakes as learning and experience.
Each of us will be limited in terms of what we are able to achieve, and surely some folks are going to have advantages over us, so we may or may not be able to catch up financially or psychologically to some folks who are advantaged over us, but it does not seem healthy to necessarily be competing against others in any kind of obsessive way - but at the same time, it is good to set goals to be able to measure progress whether we are measuring against ourselves in various ways and/or comparing to others in the sense that sometimes we can get some better senses of progress if we are engaging in some healthy comparisons.
The level of knowledge of a person in a particular field is always different, we do not need to force ourselves to achieve what others have obtained, this is also related to the peace of life. When we push ourselves too much to be like other people, this is where our weakness lies. Whatever we want to achieve is based on the ability we have to achieve life goals. There is no need to make comparisons with others, because we can never be someone else and vice versa.