Acharya Prashant explains that the problem is not that people are poor, but that those who should not be rich, whether individuals or institutions, are rich. Because they are rich, they have ensured that people will remain poor. If money were in the right hands, it would not let poverty survive. Poverty has persisted because people have given all their money, power, and prestige to the wrong hands. They have given respect to those who should not be respected and resources to those who should not have them. Now, those same people, having become powerful, enter your homes and minds and make you hostages. He connects this to the concept of 'Yagya' from the Bhagavad Gita (4.31), which means dedicating whatever resources you have to the highest purpose. Yagya is the act of elevating something from a lower level to a higher one. He explains that 'ayagya' (non-yagya) has two forms: either consuming everything for oneself, which Shri Krishna calls theft, or offering resources to an undeserving place under the guise of a high or religious cause, which is a false yagya. Giving resources to undeserving religious institutions that have amassed immense wealth is an example of such a false yagya. This principle also applies to personal life, particularly time management. For operational excellence, it is necessary to constantly keep an eye on oneself. He asks, "Where did my last half an hour go?" Time slips like sand from a fist, and one should know where it goes. This awareness is lost when one is intoxicated. Self-observation means knowing where your time is going. He states that "personal time is hell," because whatever you save for yourself, you will create hell for yourself in it. Instead, one should dedicate their time to a higher cause.