George Foley argues middle-class comfort breeds complacency. Poor people have more hunger to climb out, while middle-class people can get a mortgage and raise a family without changing. About 90-95% of people never break the cycle because they're satisfied where they are.
About 90–95%.
Successful people if you come from a really poor upbringing. I had nothing like really, really poor. It's not easier to get richer, but lower middle class. So just middle class because you brought up in a bubble of comfort, you could earn 50k a year, get a mortgage, get a house, get married, have two kids, stay in this education system. That's the worst part of being in middle class because it's very hard to get out of that. And when you've got nothing, you're putting in the hustle because it's only upside from there. Whereas if you've got a tiny little bit of comfort and you could stay okay. That's why 90 to 95% of people don't change, because they're okay being where they are.
