@Phoenixyin13: Nature journal confirms: How do ordinary people actually get rich? Harvard, Stanford, and Meta teamed up and directly extracted 72.2 million people and 21 billion real friend relationship chains from Facebook. Personally, I feel that this amount of data basically turned over most of the United States. They wanted to study an ultimate question: to...

Nature journal confirms: How do ordinary people actually get rich? Harvard, Stanford, and Meta teamed up and directly extracted 72.2 million people and 21 billion real friend relationships from Facebook. Personally, I feel that this amount of data basically turned over most of the United States. They wanted to study an ultimate question: What exactly determines whether a person can break through class solidification and become rich? The result showed that all those fancy factors, like school quality, community cohesion, religious beliefs, etc., are not decisive. There is only one hardcore indicator called Economic Connectedness, or EC for short. In simple terms, it's how big your cross-class social circle is. More concretely, it means among low-income people, what proportion of their friends are rich. The study found that this indicator has a correlation coefficient of up to 0.65 with intergenerational upward income mobility. In the social sciences, this is almost a dominant level of super-high correlation. We can derive a golden rule: An ordinary child from a humble background, if growing up in a community with a high proportion of rich people and a friendly social atmosphere, can see their average income directly skyrocket by 20%. Since the key to getting rich is EC, what ordinary people most need to do to turn their lives around is to break out of their social comfort zone, change their environment to rub circles, and go to communities, schools, or even gyms where rich people or elites frequently appear, such as high-intensity professional training fields, high-quality academic salons. More importantly, enhance your own value of being linked. After all, rich people are not stupid; mere flattery won't work. Use your professional skills, unique insights, or even being an expert in AI or technology, or achieving excellence in a small field as an entry ticket, to provide emotional value or tool value to high-net-worth individuals. If you want to become rich, first look at who the top 5 people in your social circle are. Actively connect with those richer and wiser than you, and take action now. This is a paper from five years ago, but I still remember it vividly.