Exactly.
A lot of these folks responding lack any sort of forward vision. It's all about now, not later on down the road and how an investment today could pay off later.
My grandmother (moms mother) bought a patch of dirt land in Texas (where she was from) when she was young. She passed in '86 and the land went to my moms, her sister, and her brother. Nearly 30 years later my moms and aunt are now receiving a monthly check from the oil found on that land.
My other grandmother (pops mother) grabbed some land on the reservation when she was young. Many decades later she leased it out to a farming operation that gave her a monthly check in return. She passed last year and now that land belongs to my aunt, me, and my siblings. WE now get that check.
As broke as I am now, I managed to cop land in 4 states here in the southwest (NV, AZ, CO, and TX) as well as a small plot in mid-Michigan. Worst case, it goes to my kids when I pass, but by then the land value with have increased so they could sell it or try to do something with it. Either way, it helps them out. I also own thousands of shares in cheap ass stock from a number of companies. Today the stock isn't worth much, 10 years from now that may not be the case, but either way I made the investment now.
All of my kids grew up with computers. I made sure they always had a PC in their room to use. My two youngest write their own games, in fact this weekend I'm upgrading their tools so they can cross compile their games to work on Android and iOS. My middle daughter learned development with Unity and Unreal Engine, though now she's thinking of going into acting and songwriting. To that end, a couple of months ago I gave her an 8 track recorder and a microphone I had sitting off so she can get used to the concept of multitrack recording and also as a tool for her songwriting. I also gave her a primer on music publishing so she knows how to flip any song she writes into a long term money maker. The oldest is studying to be a teacher with a PC I built for her and her fiancee last year. The point being: I invested in them for their future. They can move in whatever direction suits them, but I'm trying to give them options for the long term.
You can be poor today and set yourself up to be comfortable down the line if you just use the money you have correctly.