Once money is used to prove the past, it marks the beginning of class lock-in.

Those who truly move upward, after earning money, will only improve themselves and leave the old environment.
Because the old environment will constantly define you—who you are, how you spend your money.
Once you cater to it, you can never go back.
Don't welcome a decaying and lonely environment, don't go home to be the first, but aim for a bigger world, to become a smaller part of it.
Don't think about falling leaves returning to their roots, but about taking root where you land.