Why Most People Will Never Be Rich

The Game Is Rigged..

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Pablo Ottenwalder
November 21, 2025

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Pablo’s Perspective:

Let’s get real for a second.

The system in America isn’t broken it works exactly the way it was designed. And once you understand that, everything makes sense

Think about it…

Every single state in the U.S. has a ghetto.

Different cities, different cultures, different industries same outcome.

Why? 

Because poverty isn’t an accident. It’s a built-in feature of how this country runs.

I saw this up close. I grew up in a single-parent household on EBT, my mom working multiple jobs, and our entire support system was two aunts in the projects. And even with that, my mom felt like she “made it” coming here from the Dominican Republic because American poverty was still 100x better than what she came from.

But here’s the thing: A certain percentage of people have to stay poor for the system to function:

  • Low-wage workers keep the economy cheap to run.
    Someone has to work the jobs nobody else wants.

  • High-interest lenders, payday loans, and credit card companies survive off the poor.
    Poverty is profitable.

  • Real estate investors, landlords, and developers get richer because someone has to rent forever.

  • Schools in poor neighborhoods stay underfunded, which keeps the next generation starting behind.

It’s a cycle. Not an accident.

And the wild part?

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Being poor in America isn’t just a personal struggle it’s an economic position the system needs filled.

That’s why every state has a “bad part of town,” no matter how wealthy the city is.

Just because the system is designed this way doesn’t mean you have to stay stuck inside it.

If you want out, you have to do the things nobody around you is doing:
Change your environment. Read obsessively. Learn a high-income skill. Build a small emergency fund so your brain stops panicking.

And stop being scared of looking dumb.
Looking dumb is part of the process.
Discomfort is the price you pay for a better life and most people stay broke because they refuse to pay it.

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Did you know? 💡 

The U.S. government tracks poverty almost the same way it tracks unemployment… because the economy literally needs a certain percentage of people to stay poor for prices and wages to function?

Economists call it the “natural rate of poverty.”

-Pablo