Is this “problematic”
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No. I was born into a first generation migrant family with no academics or money. I had to share a room with my brother... until my parents got divorced. Also lied about school, because I didn't want to ask for money for field trips.
I may have gotten lucky by finding the right incentives, e.g. a wonderful girl, and overall had decent parenting.
Today I'm a mathematician, did work both physically and academically, although pretty much exclusively to help and never in fulltime employment. And despite that I managed to become financially independent before my set target.
Also, if you crunch the numbers you will find that it's possible to retire with a small seven figure sum even if you perpetually earn minimum wage, something that nobody does. The key is starting early and investing regularly. Starting at 20 about 2.5 hours worth of minimum wage is sufficient.
What is missing is people actually taking a break from the noise of modern society and using the incredibly powerful tools that are freely available to virtually everyone to learn about possible paths, as well as actually setting some long-term goals and working towards them.
If people did that, the cabal or corrupt and demented corporatists wouldn't even be an issue.
That sounds all well and good, until you peak behind the curtain and realize you've been gambling your life savings away into a casino disguised as a legitimate market.
At any given moment the rug can be pulled out from underneath you and you may lose all of your investments. You think it can't happen until it does. The market will never be fair for the common investor until we hold hedge funds accountable for their market manipulation, and counterfeiting of shares. These hedge funds are both predator, and scavenger. The can target any one of the companies you invest in, and through the creation of synthetic shares they can drive the price down into bankruptcy, and syphon all of a company's wealth like a financial vampire.
That's not how it works. You fundamentally own a share in society. If the rug is pulled, it will recover. If anything, you now have an opportunity to acquire larger relative shares.
The only way there's no subsequent recovery is if we had problems so serious that money would mean absolutely nothing to anyone on this planet. Think nuclear war.
You also can't fall prey to manipulation if you go with recurrent purchases and diversify. The only way to get fucked for good is if you try to time your purchases and sales or go all in on any one type of asset. Which is why I specifically never mentioned trading of any kind.
People must learn that investments are one of the few real ways to not just generate wealth for yourself, but to indeed mold and evolve society. Consumers already do this on a much smaller scale, their choices impact what is made. Applying the same to investments fast-tracks the same effect.