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The progress you make on difficult problems using insignificant resources can indicate such an extreme leverage of those resources, that it can be truly intimidating to those having actual significant resources themselves.

Even more threatening to those having "abundant" resources, and again a whole new level of fear by those whose resources are not a result of challenging efforts they themselves have made.

Be careful of downward pressure from those who almost never perceive any chance of being "leapfrogged" in some way or another, the unfamiliar feelings can trigger an almost instinctual response that acts to keep you separated from enough resources to become self-sustaining, if possible.