Why do some societies receive billions in aid, NGOs, and international funding… yet remain poor for generations? While other societies become wealthy with far fewer external resources? Because money alone does not create wealth. People create wealth. If billions of dollars flow into a corrupt system with weak education, weak institutions, and very few value creators, the money often concentrates in the hands of politicians, oligarchs, and power brokers. The society itself doesn’t become richer. A few individuals do. But societies that invest heavily in developing human capital — skills, education, discipline, entrepreneurship, innovation, systems, and long-term thinking — become value-generating machines. They don’t just consume money. They multiply it. That’s why external investment works differently in different places. In one society, a billion dollars disappear. In another, a billion dollars funds businesses, technologies, infrastructure, jobs, and innovation that generate exponentially more value. This is also the deeper meaning of investing. The stock market is not just numbers moving on a screen. At its core, investing is partnering with people who are trying to create value at scale. And today, platforms like Skool allow ordinary people to do the same thing on a smaller scale. Almost every person has: - knowledge - skills - experience - lessons - expertise that can genuinely improve other people’s lives. The people who learn how to turn their experience into value creation stop thinking like consumers… and start thinking like builders. So here’s my question: What’s one skill, experience, or piece of knowledge you have that could genuinely create value for other people?

👇 Vote below. Over the years, I’ve become convinced that financial growth is shaped by much more than income alone. Mindset, habits, discipline, education, and the beliefs we inherit about money all play a major role. This became one of the central ideas behind Think and Grow Rich Like a Jew — understanding how the way we think about wealth shapes the way we build it. Curious to see what people here think.

I’ve been thinking about the difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundance mindset lately. A scarcity mindset sees wealth as limited. If someone becomes wealthy, then someone else must have lost. If someone succeeds, someone else must have been exploited. If someone wins, someone else must lose. And when people truly internalize that worldview, it naturally creates resentment toward successful people. Their gain feels like your loss. Ironically, greed itself often grows out of scarcity thinking: the fear that there is not enough to go around. - Not enough money. - Not enough opportunity. - Not enough security. - Not enough success. But an abundance mindset starts from a completely different premise: Human beings can create value. - A farmer creates food. - An engineer creates technology. - A teacher creates understanding. - An entrepreneur creates systems that improve people’s lives. A business can create opportunities, jobs, solutions, convenience, efficiency, knowledge, and growth that simply did not exist before. And people with an abundance mindset tend to focus less on taking wealth… and more on creating value. That’s why many genuinely successful people become builders, investors, mentors, philanthropists, employers, innovators, and creators. They see wealth not merely as something to possess — but as something that can expand through creativity, discipline, cooperation, and contribution. So coming back to the original question: Do you think Monopoly teaches people a healthy understanding of wealth… or does it teach scarcity, greed, and extraction?

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