Hello Aluxers! It’s great to have you with us for an exceptional Sunday video.
This time, we’re taking a look at what governs poverty and why some people can not seem to escape it.
Although there are many different types of poverty, in order to keep it concise we’re going to use the statistical analysis:
Simply put,
in the same way the top 20% qualifies as rich, and everyone else in different levels of the middle class.
With that said: Here are the 15 Rules of Poverty:
People who believe their destiny is to suffer, do nothing to stop it!
They simply accept that their life is supposed to be the way it is.
Maybe they tried once and failed.
Maybe the cards were stacked so much against them, that there’s nothing they feel they can do.
What most people don’t know is that
Change your circumstances, by first changing the way you think about what your life is supposed to be.
Follow through in small increments and soon you'll see that
You can be broke many times in life, but being poor is deeper than money.
People in poverty have no hope, they lost it.
They lack faith, in their ability to write their own future, they lack the will to push forward.
One can escape being broke many times, but if you end up poor and accept it, there’s little that can be done for you.
Unfortunately, too many people grow up without understanding the distinction between these 2 states,
with parents brainwashing their kids into believing they’re poor when in reality children can only be broke.
For them, money is associated with greed and the lack of it with some sense of delusional pride.
If you’re poor, you can’t take care of yourself and those you love; not to mention helping the world move forward.
Throughout time and across all species we’ve seen hierarchies form.
The strongest lion mates with all the females, the most social chimp leads the pack, and in the case of humans, the stronger armies took from the weak.
Time passed and the sword and shield got replaced by the pen, by the book and today, by your ability to navigate the internet.
Poor people are not poor because they don’t have the potential to escape poverty..
They simply don’t have the education & the tools to do so.
They lack the understanding and the systems needed to pull a community together, towards the common goal.
Today, the ability to leverage knowledge over someone else determines the hierarchy of power, because our society is predilected on this.
If you look at all the most powerful people in the world, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah, Angela Merkel, Elon Musk, these are not Olympic athletes.
and life rewards those who create opportunities.
They simply don’t know how, because if they did they would’ve done it themselves.
Yet parents still want to teach their kids the things they themselves find valuable, the difference is, those lessons are about survival at the bottom.
This is what leads to:
This happens when each generation makes sure to sabotage the next one,
either through lack of proper development, through negative influence and in some cases: just pride!
There’s something interesting we’ve seen in poor communities that we want to share with you.
It’s this concept of a
Basically, you make as many children as you can in the hopes that one of them will make it and it will take care of everyone else.
What these people don’t understand is that:
Think about it, in the hopes of having 1 child that gets into the middle class, people are having up to 10 children.
The sum need of resources for the remaining 9 of them, dramatically outweighs the earning power of the one that made it.
If you want to know what rich parents are teaching their kids,
click in the top right corner and watch the video we did specifically on the lessons that make the biggest difference.
This is one of those things people in the middle and at the top get wrong about those less fortunate than them.
Some people believe all you have to do to escape poverty is work hard.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
but to escape poverty you need more than that!
You see.. Wealth - or the lack of it
The problem arises when there isn’t proper access to the tools required to escape poverty.
If there’s one universal rule that applies to everything is that similar individuals gravitate towards one another. Why?
Common enemies, common difficulties bring people together.
This is true for both those who’ve made it and for those who didn’t.
The paradox of this situation is that you can’t help those who don’t want to help themselves.
Getting out of poverty is a combination of many factors & you can only do it when Opportunity meets Preparation.
When the opportunity presents itself, you need to be focused and not let it go, don’t wait for others you push you through it.
This one expands on the point we’ve made earlier.
You need to free yourself of every chain keeping you in poverty if you want to escape it.
The most common chains are
like basic utilities or access to financial instruments, like a bank or a market.
This is a big one, as most people in poverty believe getting out of poverty is only a matter of luck and luck alone.
Although they might of end up where they are because of luck - or better said, the lack of it - the way out does follow a different formula.
Here’s an interesting observation we’ve made:
This is mind-blowing because poor people don’t see success in jumping up 1 social class at a time, so if they can’t be rich, they’d rather not try at all.
This is the main reason why they buy scratch tickets, play the lotto, wait for an inheritance, hit the casinos and so on.
They all want to go from 0 to 100 real quick!
Fix the things that you can fix, one by one and you’ll see your life keep getting better.
As long as they’re fed and entertained, people believe their life is going well.
This is one of the illusions of power and one of the biggest chains keeping people in poverty.
in the past 2 millennia since Juvenal said those words?
We’ve built more modern coliseums to hold more people and now the entertainment is in everyone’s home.
You’re playing Fifa, Rocket League, Fortnite or Dota2 just to feel like a gladiator - but you do it at your own expense.
You’re watching Keeping up with the Kardashians or The Big Bang Theory the same way ancient Romans watched Slaves being thrown to the lions.
You know it doesn’t do much for your current reality, but a good distraction is always welcome isn’t it?
Empty-Entertainment is a form of addiction that takes years out of your life without you even realizing it!
Have you ever noticed how those who are bad with money can’t ever seem to keep hold of it?
Even if fortune hits them in the face it only take a couple of years for them to get back to the place they started in.
This is because money doesn’t like people who don’t work for money, so they flee and find new owners.
When you bring it all together, this is one of the fundamental reasons why
A recent study on U.B.I. - universal basic income - done in Finland over 2 years,
where they gave people 1000 Euros ($1100 USD) every single month with no strings attached
has seen no real improvement in their ability to get their lives together.
The only noticeable result is that the money made them happier, but nothing else.
They didn’t find a place to work, they didn’t follow their passions, nothing to the effect of economical transformation.
Instead, poverty is an infrastructure and opportunity problem!
Give the people the option to get educated,
give them the opportunity to participate in the marketplace and everyone should be able to take care of themselves.
There are 2 amazing books that we can’t stop recommending everyone read:
For people who are looking to get out of poverty:
For people who are not poor but what to understand what it takes to jump from one social class to another:
If you’ve read one, get the other and if you haven’t ready any of them, read both!
We know it might be weird to recommend books to someone who’s struggling financially, so we reached out to our friends at Audible
and if you go to alux.com/freebook and this is the first time you sign up you can get one of these 2 audiobooks for free!
That’s alux.com/freebook!
You have no excuse not to get free knowledge!
Think of it like this:
Since slavery is illegal, society has been looking for ways to steadily increase productivity without crossing that line, but you bet they came very close to it.
In modern society, you never really own anything.
Even the people who’re able to fully pay off their house are not complete owners of it.
The government still charges you rent, for you to live in the house you purchased...
The moment you’re born you’re put on a treadmill and told to run.
They put carrots on a stick and dangle it in front of your face to keep you motivated.
The new iPhone, the Balenciaga sneakers, the gold chain, the house with a view… these are all carrots meant to keep you pushing that treadmill forward.
They try to own you through debt as soon as they legally can.
Most people in the US end up in debt before they’re old enough to drink.
Most of them spend the rest of their lives trying to repay it.
When the main focus of your existence is paying off the fruits of your labor to someone else, isn’t that just another form of slavery?
Most people don’t understand just how expensive it is to be poor.
A single unforeseeable expense completely crushes your world.
Some of you may be wondering right now… how come it is so expensive to be poor when being poor means you have no money…
But look it at it this way:
You don’t have money to fix a cavity, so you ignore it.
The tooth gets compromised and now you have to get an implant.
The cavity fix was a couple hundred, the implant is a couple thousand.
You want to use a bank in order to keep things going financially, but there isn’t enough money in your account to cover the fees.
In this case, being poor is literally costing you money.
Because you have no money in your account and lack good prospects the bank will not issue you a standard loan,
so what options do you have left?
You take a payday loan, with an interest 10 times higher than what a bank normally would have charged you.
We can keep going for days...
It costs you more to be poor...
This rule is as old as history, it even shows up in the bible under Mathew, with slightly different wording:
The rich keep getting richer, while the poor keep getting poorer.
Fruit is the result of someone planting a seed and caring for a tree to grow. Fruit has value.
This is true in both the literal and metaphorical senses.
If you want fruit or money, you better start planting trees!
These people think of it as free money, but finding the right seed, digging in the ground, covering it with fertile dirt, watering it every day,
making sure it doesn’t get destroyed by insects or external elements until a tree is strong enough to bear fruit is incredibly difficult.
It requires work, time, and attention.
Some people get to do it quicker and some take a little bit over 20, but it’s more than do-able.
The 40 years between your 20s and your 60s are more than enough time,
you have more than enough strength, health, drive and passion than you need to take the risk.
You have the years ahead of you and frankly, if you’re poor, it doesn’t get worse than this...
We have such a large community of people with many of you taking the leap in the past couple of years so share your experience with those who are just starting out:
Tell your story in the comments and be the inspiration these people need!
You never know how your comment can change someone’s life!
As a thank you for sticking with us until the end we’re giving you a bonus:
The ugly truth about money is that it’s tied to your level of security.
This is such a mind-blowing idea that somehow, the number of made-up credits you have to your name determines how much society is willing to care of you.
Rich people get away with shit everyone else wouldn’t be able to do.
Here’s just one example of how duplicit the system is:
Most of your countries politicians are wealthy beyond imagination without being able to explain where their wealth comes from.
If you’ve been able to escape poverty or plan to do it in the next couple of years, please write the word ESCAPE in the comments,
so we know how many of you are in this journey!
We couldn’t be any prouder of you, the Aluxers
who through sheer power of will have changed your circumstances so much in the past couple of years, that you’re about to break free!