>>930708>>930827Following on from these two, understand that for someone to be made richer, someone else must be made poorer. An exchange of money must be made to make someone richer.
The poor are people who make poor exchanges when earning and spending money.
The average are people who make mediocre exchanges when earning and spending money.
The well off are people who make good exchanges when either spending or earning money.
The rich are people who can convince others to make mediocre exchanges when spending money.
The richest are people who make it almost a necessity for anyone dealing with them to make poor exchanges and to deal with them often.
The only way to lessen the rich-poor gap is to educate the masses, but a job hierarchy will always exist. Someone will need to be the janitor or the office junior. Not everyone can be the CEO, but someone does have to be the CEO. The key to the poor becoming richer is for them to spend more wisely.
Take for example one of my old colleagues. She would complain she never had any money, despite living in a house with her partner (both working full time, no kids) and having no mortgage through inheritance. She had a mobile phone plan that she knew nothing about which she paid £45 a month for. She had a Sky subscription that she was locked into and was paying for more than she used. There were other aspects of her financial life that would creep out during conversation that made me realise that no one took care of their finances and no one in that partnership knew how to spend money effectively.
TL;DR: Teach people not to spend money poorly. The rich will have less stupidity to capitalise on and the poor will have more money available/invest it more wisely.
(As an aside, alcohol keeps many poor people poor. I budget for 2 nights out per month and even then, I feel it's expensive for what it is)
