This episode explains why most people aren’t poor—but are quietly trapped being comfortably broke. It breaks down four invisible systems—income, consumerism, taxes, and time—that keep you stable, busy, and dependent without ever building real wealth. You’ll see how earning is mistaken for progress, how comfort absorbs your surplus, why wages are taxed hardest, and how exhaustion kills initiative. The key insight is that the system doesn’t trap you by force—it traps you by making life just comfortable enough to never change course. If you want to recognize the box you’re in and start building ownership, leverage, and optionality instead of maintenance, this episode gives you the mental escape hatch.