It was useful for poor children to be friends with the rich

A new study finds that poor children who are friends with rich people are more likely to

get rich later in life.

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Researchers at Harvard Universityanalyzed 21 billion friends on a major social network. It has been found that growing up in a community that includes both rich and poor people can improve children's chances of becoming rich when they grow up.

Thus, if children with low economic well-being grew up surrounded by wealthy peers, their incomes in adulthood would increase by an average of 20%.