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Success I was talking about (also in the video) is not about floating above poverty. It's about breaking in higher middle class tier. I believe chasing this tier of income starting from poverty will do a number on you. In the process of getting to higher income you'll exchange your health, family and empathy for opportunity to earn progressively higher income
For the context, I grew up in a hood, had quite limited social safety net, worked about a dozen jobs paying fraction of minimum wage before turning 18. I felt miserable most of the time -- in hindsight I realize I was often simply hungry & cold but at the time it felt like world simply hates me.
I moved to local capital and had experience in success chasing game. I earned several times the average country average while working clean & prestigious office jobs. Yet despite the money, success chasing brought me to the lowest low of mental health until I couldn't go on. Therapy, medicine and vacation just weren't extreme enough to help me recover in some reasonable time frame. Experience of my peers shows similar story: while playing the success chasing game, everyone eventually breaks, get traumatized, get cynical or simply isolate away