People want to understand a lot of things from the social and physical world, but so far not all secrets are open. One of them can be packed into the question: why do people become poor? The problem has at least two dimensions - economic and psychological. We will choose the second context. Although in reality it is necessary to take into account both economic factors and psychological ones. Let's throw the bridge from one to the other in the material below.
Plyushkin effect
There is such a recent joke that Russians have everything on the balcony, even the most unexpected. Experts say that this is one of the factors of poverty, when people can’t throw out unnecessary trash in any way. It’s hard to say how this works, but maybe new things just don’t come to the house where their place is already taken?
One way or another, but even these people can be understood, forgiven and explained their behavior. We do not know what drives them, but perhaps life did not shine just because of their personal or economic situation in the country, in principle, so a similar habit has developed. And man is a slave to established rituals and behaviors, then it is difficult, if not impossible, to retrain.
Postponed Life
The other side of the same coin: people put aside not only trash, but also the best things. Themselves go anyhow and cook in old pots and pans, drink from cracked cups, but if guests come, then they get a new set, possibly from a sideboard.
This also brings up a certain psychology, in the trap of which a huge number of people fall. Men and women think that the best time will come. But, as stated in the lectures of the Soviet philosopher M.K. Mamardashvili, the time will come, and the time is now. Life cannot be put off until tomorrow; such a path does not lead anywhere. As already mentioned in the movie "Ghost", tomorrow may not come.
Therefore, it makes no sense to preserve the best dresses, the best dishes for a “special occasion”.
Cinderella who hasn't grown
There is also a certain truth here. In poor families, where there are two or more children, the younger ones always suffer from a kind of discrimination: they rarely buy new things, they carry the clothes of older children.
Then the psychology of a person is formed, who is content with not only small, but not the best for himself: low-paying work, pathological relationships with a partner, unwillingness to do anything in everyday life. It’s nice to be modest, but the problem is that people don’t live to the fullest, even if they have opportunities, and this is a crime against themselves.
Being determines consciousness
The famous thesis of K. Marx, which can no longer be quoted. Here we are talking about the fact that low self-esteem, which determines the psychology of a poor person, is inherited. If a person lives in everyday decline and devastation, then in the end he gets used to it and such behavior becomes a model that defines the life world.
No “poverty genes" exist in nature, everything is only in our heads. It is possible to “reflash” a person’s psyche, but two components are needed - the desire to change and constant internal self-control in order to prevent the past attitude from raising one's head and rebelling.