Mindset game for the skilled and unskilled.

[batang_bitcoin]

That's possible because even you're skilled into a task that you can do easily and make a lot of money out of it yet you're not financially literate, you don't know how to save your profit from that skill.
But there's also the situation that even how hard you're trying to save but you have a lot of obligations and burden which you're bringing, you won't be wealthy but you're responsible.

[AicecreaME]

Mindset can play a great role in one's success. In the industry, there are skilled and unskilled people. There are naturally talented people and we must know that talent differs from skills. To define, skills can be learned and acquired during any stage of someone's life. There is no person who is naturally skilled, but there are people who are already born talented.

When you arrive at the age of being aware of how the world works and how harsh reality is, you will feel the need to find something to generate income from in order to survive. For some, studying is their ladder to reach the top. Some people feel the need to study in order to achieve what they want to become in life. The process of studying gives them the opportunity to be skilled in the field they want to pursue in the future. Skilled people usually have a wider opportunity to choose from the moment they finish their degree. It also gives them the chance to choose what position they want and the rate of salary they receive is par ahead compared to those unskilled that are working with blue-collar jobs. If you have this kind of mindset, it's a good thing because it clearly implies that you have a goal and dream that you aspire to reach one day. However, this shouldn't make you complacent in life. Just because you are skilled, doesn't really guarantee you a spot at the top. In fact, most of the time, skilled people are the ones who are working in the company, and not the company owner because they were too fixated on their job, not aiming more.

Meanwhile, there are unskilled people who are unskilled by choice or because of a lack of opportunity and privilege. Most of the time it is because of the latter. There are many people who belong to the poverty line, hence, they lack the opportunity to study to become skilled based on their dream profession. But being unskilled doesn't stop these people to dream and achieve their aspirations in life. Most of the unskilled people that I have met will surely shock you for they have a great mindset one has to have. Since these people lack opportunity because of being unprivileged, instead of sulking, they make an opportunity of their own. These kinds of people are usually one of the hard-working and smart people you've ever met and they apply it by working in blue-collar jobs such as doing labor and the likes as a starting point. From there, they condition themselves to rise from the top. By applying the lessons they learned from experience and with the help of their upheld values, beliefs, and principles in life.

[Hydrogen]

In simpler language, Is it possible that people who always want to learn this and that skill to be able to survive never really become so wealthy in life compared to those who just want to be able to have money to be able to patronise the services of people who offer them?

There are welders like Jesse James, indie developers like John Carmack (Doom), musicians, athletes, actors are other associated forms of skilled labor who do attain relative degrees of wealth. CEOs, politicians, admirals, generals might also be considered skilled labor. Many with these job titles have little control over how their business scales. Skilled labor like Satoshi Nakamoto could see their wealth shift dramatically over the span of only a decade. With zero control or influence over the net effect.

The overall dollar value of skilled versus unskilled labor rests upon relative contributions to society. With the appraisal process being somewhat subjective and arbitrary. Labor markets have shifted dramatically away from skilled labor and specialized skillsets. Towards mundane tasks being in greater danger of workplace automation.

Time is yet another aspect. Living in a hamster wheel of paycheck to mouth, may not leave people with much time to focus on developing the specialized skillsets they may desire. Instead forcing them to choose from lesser options.

[Darker45]

I basically don't agree. But this is not just a simple case of attracting positive vibration or energy, or something like if you want it you will have it kind of thinking. I'm afraid this might not really be the case in the real hard world of day-to-day struggles.

Supposing there are two persons of equal socio-economic status. One developed multiple skills, the other didn't. What would possibly happen to the one who has the skills in terms of his/her living condition? What would happen to the other?

It may be true in life that a dumb, unskilled, school dropout, and kind of lazy person ends up hiring those who are skilled, brilliant, and hardworking. But that is because of other factors outside this discussion. He/she could have been born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth.

[xSkylarx]

That's possible because even you're skilled into a task that you can do easily and make a lot of money out of it yet you're not financially literate, you don't know how to save your profit from that skill.
But there's also the situation that even how hard you're trying to save but you have a lot of obligations and burden which you're bringing, you won't be wealthy but you're responsible.

You are absolutely correct. I read on a Facebook post that not all people are paid the same when it comes to salary because there are types of people who do not have obligations, such as those you mentioned, and others who do have obligations, such that their salary is insufficient. As far as skills are concerned, we should point out that if you have abilities, I believe you have not yet landed your dream job that will make you successful. However, don't just think about jobs; think about business as well, because while not all jobs will make you wealthy, business may be able to make you wealthy.

[mu_enrico]

I think OP takes the notion of the unskilled hiring skilled people too seriously, such as CEOs who often a dropout but manage to hire straight A students, and the silicon valley "seed investors." Skill is an intangible capital, and money is a tangible capital. Both are important, and can be utilized to generate income. IMO, many of the "unskilled" as OP coined, aren't really unskilled at all. They actually skilled and have overcome many challenges to survive and achieve their position as an investor. Read Kiyosaki's Cashflow Quadrant to get the simplified explanation on how skilled workers become business owner and then finally become investor. It's more of a progression, and most people start from the "have to acquire skills" zone.