Social factors, such as background, class and life circumstances rarely gain much consideration when it comes to their impact on people's trading, and yet they have a far larger impact on people's behaviour, decisions-making and risk appetite than many people realise.
In this article AlphaMind's Steven Goldstein wrote for Linkedin recently, he discussed this, in light of the work he does with traders and investors from a wide range of backgrounds and life circumstances.
This article called 'Trading and The Undeserving Self', can be read at this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trading-undeserving-self-steven-goldstein