A short YouTube monologue by Mike Andes arguing that poverty forces people into scarcity-focused thinking (worrying about food, rent, bills) which prevents them from thinking about abundance or contributing to others. The speaker contends that being broke does not make one humble but instead limits one’s ability to have impact; choosing poverty out of humility reduces potential positive impact.
If you're rich, there's a very high likelihood you're not going to heaven. But this one thing really unlocked my mindset. If someone is broke, they spend their entire day trying to think about themselves, what they're going to eat next, how to make their rent, how to be able to pay for their car payment, how to care for their family. They never have the ability to think in abundance and actually think about giving to other people. Not to diminish those individuals, it is simply to say, if given the option between rich and poor, the person that chooses poor out of being humble is simply reducing the impact they can have on the world. Being broke doesn't make you humble, it just limits your impact. And I was taught that.
