Perhaps the whole notion that there exists some path to financial freedom that anybody can pursue is just misleading wishful thinking. There are some paths tha

Perhaps the whole notion that there exists some path to financial freedom that anybody can pursue is just misleading wishful thinking. There are some paths that lead to financial freedom, but most of them have some barriers that not everybody will overcome; and universally applicable suggestions (like the financial literacy suggestion) may be helpful and make people a bit less poor, but they are not going to have a sufficiently large effect to lift someone out of poverty and into financial freedom; that will need a bit more and that "a bit more" might not be feasible for all people.