A blunt causal claim: "the reason you earn shit is because you deserve shit... it only means that you have low expectations of yourself," explicitly separated from a claim about actual competence — low pay or exploitation is treated as a downstream effect of internalized ceilings, not evidence of low worth. A cited study is used as supporting evidence: when the same job was advertised at two different pay levels, more people applied to the lower-paid listing — read as evidence that many people's application behavior is capped by what they already believe they deserve, independent of the actual opportunity available. A real anecdote illustrates the same mechanism in the wild: an Uber driver, offered £200 by a now-wealthy old friend for a day's help, voluntarily returned half of it — "he was just 'helping a friend.'" The reaction given is unsparing: this is framed not as generosity but as a specific instance of self-limiting expectation costing real money, from someone who then goes on to describe himself as broadly poor despite working hard. The closing instruction ties expectation directly to outcome ceiling: "it is highly unlikely that you will rise higher than your expectations, so make your expectations far higher than they are now." > "If you are poor you deserve it. Start believing in yourself." --- *Source: [[Gang Fit (Part 1)]] (GuruAnaerobic, self-published 2019) — Ch 35 — Exploitation*