Fertility Trap
I have seen a movie adapted from a real story, " Why I Be a Home ", which tells the story of a commoner. The boy Zane was born in a slum in the capital of Lebanon. His parents were refugee poor and had seven children in his family. He was the eldest, and his family lived in a narrow house.
Because his parents were not at home for a long time, Zane, who is nearly 12 years old, took on the responsibility of taking care of his younger brother and sister, and even went to the grocery store to work during the day. Later, for the sake of money, his parents sold one of the sisters in the family. Zane was very sad and fled from his home. Finally, Zane sued his parents for giving birth to him.
For the poor, having children is like buying a lottery, because they never know which lottery will win, so all they can do is to have more children, so the probability of winning will be higher.
So, the poor fall into a vicious cycle, and the more they are born, the poorer they are, the more they are born, and this is the fertility trap.
Educational Trap
is accompanied by a fertility trap, and what follows is the educational trap.
The family is obviously very poor, and parents don’t care about their children’s studies at all, and some families can’t afford their children’s tuition. Moreover, in relatively remote places, parents prefer boys to girls, so that boys can keep studying, even if their studies are not good. Girls usually don’t go to junior high school and have to go out to work to make money. Educational concepts like
are very bad.
Cognitive Trap
Just like that, after the fertility trap and educational trap, the poor fall into the cognitive trap. In fact, it is not only poor people, but also ordinary people. They will encounter various traps in their lives, because blindness is like a blind man touching an elephant. He will feel whatever he touches, unless a pink elephant can appear in the elephant herd.
How to get rid of poverty and become rich? The answer lies in the brain's cognition. If a pink elephant can really appear, then the pink elephant will broaden the mind of the brain.
In a farming area in northern India, some scholars conducted intelligence tests on farmers before the harvest and farmers after the harvest.
The results show that after the bumper harvest, farmers' IQ will increase by 14 units. Why does this difference occur? It is because the wealth they have changed.
Even if it is the same person, the lack caused by poverty will lead to his IQ being limited. Therefore, poverty limits people's thinking width, that is, the ability to handle multiple events at the same time. Moreover, poverty will also consume people's energy and make behavioral patterns lack a long-term vision.
If people are in poverty for a long time, they have no time to make long-term plans, so the poor are always trapped in the "poverty cycle". They lack access to effective information, and even if they get it, they will make wrong judgments.
can give the poor directly money, can they get rid of poverty?
This is a classic question: if you give money directly to the poor, can you get rid of poverty? Many people subconsciously think that, why? Because poor people have poor minds, even if they give money, they will still be poor in a few years.
But unfortunately, three Nobel Prize winners told the world: Giving money is useful.
A farmer named Lawrence has always made a living by farming, but because he has no money to buy fertilizers, his farmland output has not been increased. If the output is not increased, Lawrence will not make money, and it will be even more impossible to afford fertilizers. In this way, he entered an inevitable vicious cycle.
However, one day, Lawrence got a free fertilizer from a charity organization. His harvest was many times that of previous years, and he also earned more income. Then he used his income to buy enough fertilizer, and from then on he got rid of poverty and broke out of the "poor cycle".
Some people always say that class solidification is. In fact, to achieve class leapfrogging, the key is to expand the information bandwidth in the brain, that is, through these 5 channels:
1. Choose work, you can choose a job with a little information circulation. If the environment is too closed, you cannot obtain effective information.
2. Ensure a stable cash flow , so that it will not affect your ability to judge life.
3. Constrain consumption, you must save money. Many unnecessary consumption can be reduced. When you have a certain economic foundation, you will have more rights to choose your life. There is no doubt about this.
4. Read more in-depth books, read more high-value articles, and ensure effective information input.
5. Knowing people who are more valuable than you will have a higher probability of obtaining effective information.
Poverty takes away their future
There is a documentary "The Record of the Transaction of Human Organs", which tells the stories of those who voluntarily sell their organs. Most of them live in developing , for them, a kidney is the only prop to escape from the abyss of poverty.
They can sell one of their kidneys for $1,000, which usually means their total income in two years. Then they returned to their hometown, bought a car, a house, married a wife, and had children, and their lives seemed to be better. For them, poverty is the most terrible cancer, so what is the only thing that lacks a kidney?
Poverty not only limits a person's imagination, but also quietly takes away their future.
Finally, please understand the hardship and difficulty of the poor. They are poor not because they are stupid and lazy. Moreover, please reflect on the traps in the class you are in.
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