Many people go their entire lives without realizing a harsh reality: the "virtues" you are repeatedly instilled with from childhood are not necessarily meant to make your life better, but to make you easier to manage and exploit. Honesty, sincerity, and kindness are highly praised in culture, but they often only serve to constrain the weak. True strength is rarely required to be completely transparent and unreserved; what they are taught is restraint, concealment, ambiguity, and leaving a backup plan. Conversely, people from lower backgrounds are often educated to answer questions without defenses, to equate honesty with cultivation, and exposure with integrity. So, when they first enter society, they proactively reveal their bottom cards—family background, resource conditions, experience gaps—in the eyes of others, this is just a free risk assessment report. The result is often: the easiest to be exploited are not the foolish, but the overly honest; not the uneducated, but those who treat morality as a survival rule. More cruelly, this is not accidental but a systemic cultural shaping. It teaches you kindness but not boundaries; trust but not how to recognize motives. When you start making money, it becomes even more dangerous because you don’t understand how to hide and are not used to suspicion. The problem is not kindness itself, but being unguarded. Truly mature people are those who are controllably kind, limitedly sincere, and always leave room for ambiguity. Packaging defenselessness as a moral high ground is the biggest trap of the poverty culture. Recognizing this is not to make you become bad, but to let you truly take responsibility for yourself for the first time.