Of course, the economy working the way it does, this makes it harder for poorer people to earn a living since a lot of them work in service industries.
But it is good advice if you can follow it. Communism failed because under Brezhnev the economy stagnated, it became impossible for the government to do anything, and everybody who could was accumulating assets and not producing anything of value. (The saying was “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”.) Capitalism seems to be heading down the same hole at the moment; governments can only tinker a little with taxes, usually in the form of making the rich richer, and more and more money is disappearing into offshore holes, resulting in asset bubbles. Most technology products are pretty much good enough. At some point an economy based on social media workers visiting coffee shops is going to hit the buffers.
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