Poor People are Lazy?

 The fact is that we don't all genuinely have equal opportunities. Those born rich are most likely to be successful and stay rich. Those born poor are most likely to stay poor.

It's hard to get ahead when you don't have the financial resources or opportunities to do so. It is easy to point at those who started with nothing and became a success, then tell others that they should be able to do so too.

Those by-their-bootstraps folks are notable BECAUSE they are the exception. Not every poor person can do so, and it isn't because they are lazy.

Doors are opened for some folks that are slammed in the faces of most poor people - most, not all.

Until we recognize that, until we accept that, until we act to change that, that will continue. That isn't because of ability, that isn't because of talent, that isn't because of effort. That is the structure of the system we live in.