The Mindset of Wealth

Friedrich Schiller once said “The rich will keep getting rich, and the poor will get poorer.” I struggled with this statement for a while simply because I thought no one could say that for sure. I thought there were some poor people that were unprivileged. And if they had the privilege, they would be rich. I soon realized that the statement is a bit deeper than it sounds. First of all, poverty is a mindset, and being rich is a mindset. The choice is left for people to make, but the sad thing is that, people keep making the same mistake. Reasons for disparity in wealth One major reason for this is because, the rich and the poor don’t think alike. They also don’t have the same ideas about money. Another important to note is that they have major differences in their priorities. For example,...