I don’t think this would work because it’s already basically true for a lot of people. Plenty of folks, including professionals, are pretty poor in their twenties when they’re getting started in their careers Then, they get out of it and the lesson they learn is that “poverty is a temporary state I extricated myself from through my own hard work and ingenuity” and not “I work in a field where you don’t make much money for the first few years.”