The only way for the poor to change their fate and make money is to sell goods and sell good goods! So your daily work is either improving your selling skills, creating a good product, or selecting products and choosing good ones. As long as you're not doing these two things, you're doing something that keeps you away from money. I only fully realized this at age 23. Actually, by then I had already made some money, but I hadn't internalized it at a deep level.