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Why You’re Not Rich
Do you wonder why you’re not rich?
There’s a distinct possibility that you might be stupid. That would definitely affect your income potential. You might also be lazy. Laziness rarely creates wealth. Odds are that you might be stupid and lazy. Ouch.
But quite frankly, for most of us, the chances of becoming wealthy, at least by honest means, are very slim indeed. Some of us are financially comfortable, but most are just barely making ends meet.
Can I tell you a secret? There’s a good reason you’re not wealthy.
It’s not immigrants. It’s not your neighbor on food stamps. It’s not a single mom getting WIC. It’s not people speaking Spanish at the grocery store. It’s not even “illegals,” as you’ve been told to call them.
The truth is painfully simple: you’re poor because the people who control everything want to keep it that way.
While you’re busy blaming the person cleaning your hotel room or picking your produce, billionaires are laughing all the way to the bank. The richest Americans have convinced you that someone with no Social Security number, no access to public aid, and no voice in the system is somehow your biggest threat.
Let me say it clearly: The existence of another poor person is not why you’re poor.
You’re poor because:
- Wages have stagnated for 40 years while the cost of housing, healthcare, education, and food has skyrocketed.
- The minimum wage hasn’t kept up with inflation, making full-time workers dependent on second jobs and food pantries.
- Corporate profits have soared, yet those gains haven’t gone to the workers who made them possible.
- Unions were dismantled, and with them went your leverage to demand better conditions.
- Healthcare became a profit center, not a human right.
- Education became expensive and then became debt, not opportunity.
- You were sold the lie that success is just hard work away, while entire industries automated your job or shipped it overseas.
And now, instead of demanding justice from the oligarchs who have robbed us blind, you’ve been told to rage against the guy who just crossed a desert with a child on his back for the chance to wash dishes.
It’s a distraction. A magic trick. Sleight of hand.
The one percent doesn’t want you angry at them. So they hand you an enemy. One who can’t fight back. One who looks different. One who’s just trying to survive…like you.
They sell you a wall. Deportation squads. Angry speeches about “taking our country back.” But ask yourself: back from whom?
Because while you’re punching down at the immigrants just trying to survive, they’re reaching into your pocket again.
The immigrant isn’t the reason your rent went up. The immigrant didn’t cut your healthcare benefits. The immigrant didn’t offshore your job or lobby to keep your wages frozen. The immigrant isn’t hoarding wealth or evading taxes on billion-dollar earnings.
The people doing that are the ones flying private jets to climate conferences, writing tax codes in back rooms, and hiring lobbyists to gut your benefits while telling you to “tighten your belt.”
You want someone to blame?
Blame the CEO who made 400 times what you made last year.
Blame the senator who votes against wage increases while living on your tax dollars and donor money.
Blame the corporation that paid zero in taxes while you stressed over filing yours.
Blame the system that taught you to hate your economic reflection while ignoring the hand holding you underwater.
You’re not poor because someone else is trying to make it.
You’re poor because someone else already made it, and built a wall around it to keep you out.
Wake up. Look up. And stop falling for the same old lie.
And for God’s sake, stop arguing with your friends and family members who are trying to wake you up while you remain fast asleep in this dystopian dream where everyone looks and speaks just like you.
