From the author: The article talks about the mechanisms of transmission of poverty from parents to children. Children who see poor conditions are unconsciously programmed for poverty. Poverty is a state of thoughts. Only in novels does poverty look romantic and noble. In reality, poverty is a rather repulsive sight. Nobody wants to dig through trash cans. This, of course, is an extreme. But there is a short path from poverty to poverty. Heredity is a mysterious phenomenon. With her participation, not only diseases are transmitted, but also fate. Why are some successful while others barely earn enough to eat? And why is poverty passed on like arthritis or another hereditary disease? The parents lived in extreme poverty, and the children now live like that. Amazing and mysterious phenomena cease to be so when you look closely at them. Let's say a family lives in poverty. The furniture in the room contains an old sofa, a table with cracked varnish, and a broken chair with a sagging back. Before going to school, children study at home. The main teachers for them are their parents, who, as the children are sure, are the best people in the world. Children learn from their parents to speak, walk, and use a spoon and fork. All the most important skills of human life are instilled in children by parents. The children see an old sofa and a cracked table. Children develop the belief that furniture should be exactly like this. Years pass. Children have become adults. In their room, like their parents, there is an old sofa and an armchair with a sagging back. Why didn't your parents buy a new sofa? Were you strapped for cash? You don't have to buy expensive furniture. You can fix a chair with a sagging back. Stores sell cheap wallpaper. You can do simple repairs yourself. Why not paint the window sills and wash the glass? The apartment looked untidy. This dirt was ingrained in people's minds when they were children. They don't see anything reprehensible in this. They also have dusty glass in the windows. Dirt and poverty can be considered synonymous. If the children saw that their parents were trying to improve their life, they would now have a new chair in their apartment. Funds would be found. When there is a goal, then ways to achieve it appear. Sometimes there are external signs of prosperity. There are beautiful dishes in the sideboard, new tights and bed linen are stored in the closet, and there is a certain amount in the bank for a “rainy day.” People drink tea from a cup with a crack, put patches on old sheets. When will they sleep on whole sheets? When will they start drinking tea from the service? Probably never. They will live for many years, denying themselves the most basic things, although they have the opportunity to create relative comfort for themselves. This is the same poverty, only it is hidden behind beautiful cups in the sideboard, from which no one drinks tea. A child raised in such a family will also have new bed linen, but will sleep on sheets with patches. Everyone knows stories about people who saved money for years for a major purchase. Surely some of you have neighbors who have been saving for a car or a dacha for ten years. The same can be said about credit. The family ate only porridge. The children had never heard of going to the cinema. They didn't buy new toys. They didn't have fashionable clothes. And now, the desired hour has come. There is a new car in the yard. The documents for the purchased dacha are on the table. Fate sometimes plays cruel jokes. The car was in an accident. A car can be repaired in a way that a life spent under austerity cannot. And then it turns out that the children don’t want to go to the dacha. They always wanted to go to the sea. But that's not the saddest thing. It's another sad thing. The children who grew up did not know how to spend money for their own pleasure. They were simply afraid to buy an extra thing for themselves. But they knew how to save on everything. And they continued to deny themselves theater tickets and wore the same clothes for years. Children who learned to be poor will carry this knowledge throughout their lives. It is rare that anyone can escape the trap of poverty with such a program. Speech.