The Penthouse
Don't Die on the Floor You Were Born On.
Where you started is an accident. Where you end is a choice.
Almost everyone is born on the bottom floor, selling their hands and hours, and almost everyone dies there too - not because the staircase was locked, but because they never believed it was for them. The tragedy isn't starting at the bottom. The tragedy is staying there for life when the stairs were standing open the whole time, unguarded, in plain sight.
Your birth floor is not your sentence. The entire point of this book is that the staircase is real, it's climbable, and ordinary people with no money and no name climb it all the time once they can see it. You've seen it now. Refuse to die where you started. Take the first step up while the seeing is still fresh.
The bottom floor is where you began, not where you must end. Climb while you can see the stairs.
This is one of 48 laws from MIDDLEMAN - The 48 Laws of the Money in the Middle. Read it in full to climb the whole building, floor by floor.