Submitting Questions to "In the Now – Q&A with Carla and Crew"

[Diana]

Here's a question that gets me stuck:

In one of the readings, Ra attributes Franklin Roosevelt's quick progress through the energy centers to previous achievements and "the relative comfort and leisure of its early existence."
In the Buddha story, Siddhartha was born a prince and spent the first half of his life in almost gratuitous wealth and sensual occupation.

It almost seems to me that the rich have an advantage, even as spiritual seekers, at the very least because they have time and self-determination that they may use to choose to seek that the poor do not.

Is this a spiritual constant, or do you believe this is an anomaly that is unique to our planetary societal structure? Is the best bet for the poor seeker to work towards material gain first, or to accept his current lot and watch his experience drip by, day by day, little able to engage in the work he wishes to but in faith that, if he does the best with what he has been given, and incurs no serious karma, he will be able to choose a more materially-abundant life next time that affords him this opportunity (and pray that he remembers enough through the veil to avail himself of it)?

I realize this isn't discussion here, but there is Maslow's Heirachy of Needs. If you don't have the bottom basics taken care of, it's difficult to think about higher pursuits.