Mel Abraham argues the middle class was designed to keep you comfortable, not wealthy. Society trains you to work for money instead of making money work for you. He says rejecting this system and embracing risk is how you build actual wealth.
Middle class was never designed to make you wealthy. It was designed to make you comfortable enough to stop questioning the system. See, you were trained to work for money instead of getting your money to work for you, and trained to avoid risk, even though risk is the price of admission for building wealth. You're trained to rely on institutions that are running lower on credibility every single year. Comfortable was the goal they set for you, not wealthy, just comfortable, comfortable enough to keep you showing up and never ask why the math stopped working. So stop settling for the ceiling they handed you. Build a system that actually gets you free. The step.
