I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
"La ciudad no es solo un escenario, es un personaje más en mis novelas."
Success is not about being the best, it's about being the most adaptable.