This is going to sound obviously but . go to bed earlier <| sep |> The poor people are stuck in a cycle of poverty so their means of getting out of this is more than just plain old hard work . Anyway . this guys comment rings a bell with me and I wonder what you and others reckon . I ' m a fan of basic income and I agree with the idea that it will help to get rid of tedious shit that we have to do , but I ' ve recently been reading about the idea that hard work breeds resistance to adversity Harden up ! Felix Economakis . This guy ' s general idea is that our ability to see things through tough times comes from some previous conditioning that comes from some labour or other hard work . I can see anecdotal parallels to this in my life . Folks that have worked hard for something seem more resistant to everyday shit , whereas those that sort of coast through have an issue with everything and just generally aren ' t as so ' successful '. Maybe it ' s the people I knock around with .