You can move from rags to economic stability, via hard work and dedication to your enterprise, keeping clear headed and seeing with for sight.
If you believe in no. 1, your are a racist, and the Marxists will hunt you down and kill you, and Hillary will be the next president one way or another, election be damned, you fucking evil white racist sexist pigs.
My father has two brothers. Raised in the same family, by the same hideously abusive mother. Uncle Don responded to the abuse by embracing it as the way the world worked, and perpetuating it onto his wives and kids. Uncle Dan responded by busting his ass, going to the military, then going to college, then getting a high paying job, and now he’s a millionaire. My Dad broke all ties with his family, made a new family via my mother, and decided that a life of simple pleasures, non-abusive relationships and the freedom to be his own person was really all he needed.
So it seems to me your material situation has an influence, but people can react to it in different ways, and become who the strive to be.