Stay i line and do as you're told

Why do poor people stay poor?

 

Someone said: ‘If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, they will choose the bananas, because they don’t know what to do with the money and don’t realize they could buy more bananas.

 

Same way for people. If you give someone the choice between a job and a opportunity, most will choose the job. Because they don’t realize with a business can earn far more than a salary. One of the main reasons the poor stay poor is that they don’t recognize opportunity.

They spent years in school learning how to work for someone else. Not how to build something for their own. Profit is better than wages, wages can help you survive, but profit gives you wealth, health and success. If you never learn to spot opportunity you always choose the safe path and not the profitable one.

 

And that’s the heartbreaking part, because this isn’t just about money, it’s about freedom, dignity and lost dreams. Millions of people wake up before the sun rises, work for long hours, and return home with nothing but exhaustion. They struggle month after month, not because they are unqualified or lazy, but because they never shown a alternative path.

The world teaches them how to survive but never how to thrive.

 

They were told go to school, get good grades, get the job and retire at 70.

But no one ever taught them how to create wealth, no one taught them to build something for their own. They memorize facts, followed rules, earn degrees but no one taught them how to build their own business, invest or even make money in different kind of ways.

 

They were trained to be workers not winners. Living in a system where they reward obedient not creation. The tragedy is most people go through life never gaining the tools they need to discover their true potential. We live in a world where children receive 12 till 16 years of education, yet they come out writing essays about what other, usually winning people telling.

Memorize historical dates, but not how to manage money or a business or negotiate their own worth. Isn’t that strange? We prepare people for jobs they may never love or passionate about. But we don’t teach them to get the life they really want.

 

The poor stays poor because society is telling them the same story. Stay in line, don’t take risks, be grateful for every job you get, and that’s how people shrink, they suppress their ideas, they work 40 hrs a week for 40 yrs and retire on 40% of their income. Which was never enough to begin with. That’s not just unfair its soul crushing and this cycle goes on from one generation to the next. Children inherent fear from their poor parents, not fortune, caution not courage. And unless someone breaks that cycle, unless someone says there is another way, nothing ever changes.

 

But what if we taught kids how to recognize value, how to solve problems, how to create things and show them that failure isn’t something to fear. It’s a necessary step on the road to success. Because the truth is the difference between the rich and the poor isn’t just money, it’s exposure, the rich grow up seeing how wealth is created, they hear conversations at the dinner table about positivity, money, creation, believe and trust, business and scalability.

The poor grows up hearing we can’t afford that, there is no money, we are not suitable for that, that’s too expensive, get a good job or you’ll end up on the street.

Do you see the difference, it’s not just about information, it’s about the kind of environment that shapes your vision. Most people don’t know they are allowed to dream big. Their dreams are small, not because of the lack of ambition but because no one ever told them that they could thing differently. So, they focus on purely survival.

 

Becoming an entrepreneur changes that mindset, it teaches people to think differently, to see problems not as obstacles but as opportunities and it turns struggle into purpose.

It says yes you started with less, but that doesn’t mean you have to settle for less.

Because you are the director of your own story.

Either way it demands sacrifice, patience and believe, even when your bank account is empty. The difference is that you are active engaging to make your life better, which you cannot do in poverty. In one you remain trapped, in the other you have a change to fight.

Not everyone will succeed, not every idea will work, but the act of trying and taking risks, pushing you outside your comfort zone that’s what changes people. It builds resilience, self-respect and vision, even if the first business fails that person is changed forever. And that person will never think small again. Because ones you tasted freedom you can’t go back.

 

So, let’s unlearn these falls lessons so they can be free.

We need a revolution because our kids deserve a life too.

And not just in education but in mindset and society.

They need someone who says: ‘I believe in you, I got you, I will show you how you can do it’.

They don’t want charity, they want opportunity and hands-on experience, they want someone to look them in the eye and say: YOU CAN, YOU ARE WORTHY!