Couldn't hurt, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't really solve the problem.
The author was poor, but appeared to have a positive, if difficult home life. Mentoring would have helped the knowledge problem, but his problem was lack of resource above everything else.
Lack of resource leads to instability, and it taints literally everything you do, even mentally.
I know, I know, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It's not me you have to convince.
The mental training poor people, middle class people, and rich people get is completely different.
If you grow up poor there's a huge amount you need to learn - about law, politics, business ethics, finance, negotiation, social signalling, confidence and assertiveness, and how to find and deal with influencers - that the rich seem to be taught effortlessly.
Having more money doesn't change the basic life training, because the life training is itself a form of positional social signalling.
If you're middle class you're half in and half out. You have some idea how the world really works, but your ability to act on that learning is limited because you won't naturally have the right contacts - unless you cultivate them deliberately.
Most of the poor have no idea that any of this matters. They're caged inside a media-managed world view, and it takes exceptional ability to break out of that.
Mentoring can help some, but nothing helps as much as confidence and contacts.
The author was poor, but appeared to have a positive, if difficult home life. Mentoring would have helped the knowledge problem, but his problem was lack of resource above everything else.
Lack of resource leads to instability, and it taints literally everything you do, even mentally.
I know, I know, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It's not me you have to convince.