According to Osho, differences at birth arise from karmic conditioning—habits and tendencies accumulated through past actions—that crystallize as our initial circumstances and capacities. What we call poverty or privilege is not only money but ingrained patterns: scarcity or abundance of intelligence, health, beauty, generosity, or miserliness. Even if society equalizes wealth, these subtler poverties persist until one’s conditioning changes through different actions and attitudes.
We start life differently because our past-made habits set our starting kit—not just money, but qualities like health, smarts, and how we spend or share.