What Makes and Keeps People Poor
- Ekene Uchenu
- Oct 9
- 2 min read
One of the biggest obstacles that continuously holds people from attaining enduring happiness in the modern world is the financial constraint that steadily chokes and denies them the chance and capacity to materialize their great ideas or to effect the changes they want in their families, communities, nations and the world at large. Many of the people who have great intentions or ideas for their families, societies and the world are often frustrated or distracted as they keep running in circles and burning out themselves in various institutions, corporate organizations and industrial networks. Many times, these corporate institutions and networks tightly engage and ruthlessly drain people of the vibrant energies of their most productive years without enabling them to obtain the chance or resources to pursue the passions of creating the life or impact they want in their families, communities and the world before they die. Instead, the institutions and networks pay them just enough to enable them to afford food, shelter, gadgets, titles and other forms of shallow and individual entertainment. Just like carpenters without their carpentry equipment or doctors without their medical tools, many people lack the time and resources to support their families, communities or nations to build and sustain their systems of growth without being afraid of their employers’ intentions and reactions.
This system of desperately working all their lives mainly for some slightly better variety of food, shelter, toys, titles and other shallow entertainment is the industrial bondage that people call the rat-race. And since many people lack the knowledge or courage to pursue other sources of income that can grant them the freedom to pursue and actualize their talents and passions for their families, communities, nations and the world, they remain stuck in those draining, overworked and underpaid institutions, organizations and industrial networks until they become old, weak and incapable of working to actualize their dreams.
One of the many alternatives to this rat-race order of working in externally regimented schedules just for food, shelter, toys and titles is understanding and mastering the art of selling or flipping different types of property, especially cars.

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