[danaris]

If you're born into a family making below the median income, it is incredibly unlikely that you will end up making an income in the top 10%, no matter how hard you work. The systemic pressures to prevent socioeconomic mobility are such that you still need a massive amount of luck, whether that luck is in being born rich or in getting just the right opportunities at the right times to break free of poverty.

And painting this as just being about mindset is also an incredibly narrow (and privileged) view. The amount of energy and brainpower that the stresses of being poor sap from you is just staggering.