To me the article seems to be more about the challenges of growing up in 3rd world communities specifically, not about being born poor in general. There are many people born poor in 1st world countries that can rise out of poverty through education and discipline. In first world countries being poor is often about poor money management and going into poorly paid fields - https://www.askthesavingsguy.com/2021/09/16/why-youre-broke-... but in third world countries it seems to be much more of a systemic problem