Why are the ones being played people for suckers often the poor?

Yesterday while I was taking a dump, I suddenly thought of a question: What is the greatest wealth of the rich and the powerful in this world?
Is it cash? Is it a bank deposit? No.
Because money can be printed, it is fundamentally worthless, like the Zimbabwean dollar. As long as you are happy, just add a few more zeros to the banknotes, everyone is a billionaire, yet they still live in poverty.
So why is everyone so interested in money?
Because money can buy food, drinks, entertainment, and necessities, it can make people help you with massages, haircuts, deliveries, bring takeout to your doorstep, dance for you, sing for you, tell jokes to make you happy... and all of these require people to do them:
Someone has to endure the scorching sun to sow seeds, to weed, to water; someone has to leave the assembly line to make various products; someone has to rise early and stay up late, using their time to run errands for you... By now, you should understand that the greatest wealth of the upper class is not cash, but the labor and time of the poor.
If everyone lies flat, does not work, does not produce products, and does not provide services, no matter how much money you have, it will be of no use, because the money in your hands cannot be exchanged for any physical goods.
A person's life is a short 70 years, and the time available for labor is about 40 years. The value generated from these 40 years of labor, along with the precious 480 months of lifespan, constitutes the greatest wealth of the upper class. In the past, during the era of slavery, slave owners used whips to force slaves to work. The value generated from slave labor was the greatest wealth for the slave owners.
This method is the simplest and most blunt, but it is also very naked, easily met with resistance and apathy. Now the game has changed, using money as a medium, using currency as a general equivalent to measure the value of your labor, and monetizing it, paying you compensation, and conducting exchanges.
The cash you earn through labor can be exchanged for the value generated by the labor of others, such as food, items you need, and various services like haircuts and massages. This way of playing seems very fair, but there are many tricks: First, some people can print money at will to take away the output of your labor.
Second: Artificial manipulation of price fluctuations makes you buy high and sell low, taking away the money you earned through labor and time. To prevent you from lying flat and giving up work, financial means can even be used to lock in your labor and time for the next 30 years, with debt forcing you to work.
Summary: Only through labor can value be produced, and the money printed by the upper class can be anchored to real goods and exchanged for tangible items, allowing them to have good lives. The continuously laboring poor are the greatest wealth of the upper class. How can the poor break free?
First: No debt. Debt will make your life passive in every aspect. 10 yuan can have a driver rush over from 2 kilometers away to take you to your desired destination; 5 yuan can have a delivery guy bring your takeaway from 5 kilometers away.
Once in debt, the debt will force you to toil day and night, sacrificing long-term planning for short-term gains, becoming a slave to time. Without debt, accumulating your first 100,000 in savings solves your survival problem, and you gain 80% of personal freedom.
Second: The upper class often instills many concepts in the lower class to increase their labor output: comparison, vanity, status, face, jealousy, collective pride, diamonds, wedding rings, brands, limited editions... Through the implantation of these concepts, they sell you some products at prices far exceeding their value in exchange for your labor and time.
If your neighbor buys a car and walks around in front of your door every day, showing it to you, it makes you feel shameless. Although you don't need a car at all, and you can't drive it a few times a year, for the sake of face, you borrowed 300,000 yuan to buy a luxury car.
The annual parking fees, insurance, maintenance, and fuel costs add up to tens of thousands, and the high cost of living makes you feel overwhelmed. In fact, you have fallen into a comparison trap created by others, as if everyone tacitly agrees that having a car is a standard requirement for a successful life.
As long as I live better than xx, I feel that life is happy. If you change your perspective and measure the value of life with time as the anchor, you will find that poor and rich people are actually the same. If freedom, health, peace, and happiness can fill a large part of your life, at the moment you die, when you reflect on your life, I believe 90% of people will not regret it and will feel happy.