First of all, it is not excluded that there are indeed some poor people who are lazy and have not made efforts to get higher wages that they could have got.

Secondly, I think that compared with the rich, the poor have three factors that affect their earning power. The first is their academic qualifications, the second is the information they are exposed to, and the third is the circle they are exposed to.

1. The higher the education, the higher the salary. For example, the top 500 enterprises are usually more likely to admit a student from Tsinghua Peking University than a student with three books.

2. If a person can use information asymmetry to continuously absorb information and explore business opportunities, he is usually more likely to earn more money. For example, Cai, the owner of "Please Debate" that I am concerned about, bought Bitcoin at a price of several hundred dollars in 20 13, and now Bitcoin has risen to 65,438+million dollars. And he is already the richest man in Ningbo Bitcoin.

3. If you can get in touch with a very awesome circle and know some awesome people, when they start to explore some business opportunities, you will usually have more opportunities to get the first chance to seize this business opportunity.

Finally, it is a great necessity that the poor are poor, because poor thinking makes them trapped in the current difficult life. For example, the rich desperately save time and improve efficiency, while the poor spend more time to maintain their lives for a little salary. However, repeated and mechanical work for a long time makes them have no more time to improve themselves and think about how to improve their lives, thus falling into an infinite loop. In my opinion, this is why the poor are poor, not just because they are lazy.