But like, how are you supposed to move when you have no car, no job, no computer, are 20 miles from the nearest city with things like libraries in it, and use up enough a fraction of your parents&#x27; monthly income (or whatever other source that lets you physically live day-to-day) such that they don&#x27;t have much in savings to loan you?<p>As &#x27;successful&#x27; people we can see many ways out of these arbitrary situations, even if you tie our hands behind our backs with something like &quot;and no plan that involves your current professional skills like acquiring any old computer and doing software dev&quot;. We can also execute on our plans. For us, being poor is a choice, many of us started out that way to begin with and chose to do better than our parents. For a lot of others, it&#x27;s really a lack of capability in not only seeing ways out but also precisely following instructions someone else gave them to get out. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to fresh water... All the opportunities in the world are useless to you if you don&#x27;t have the capacity to see them or execute on them.