On the right, they say "The poor are poor because they are immoral outcasts!" On the left they say, "No, they are immoral because the poor dears can't help it--they don't have the prerequisite money!" Meanwhile I think you're all bigoted evil morons, using a moral argument to justify why you get to have a middle class income and the poor can't be helped. You'd tell yourself it's a moral act to abandon your family, fall in line, support fascism--because you need money to be moral.
Fuckers.
Just to button this up: One of the MAJOR FACTORS in people not being able to ascend from their poverty no matter how good or moral or skilled, is the unshakeable assumption that having spent time in poverty means you ARE: Immoral, crazy, untrustworthy.
Your pity has consequences. You want to be good for the poor? LOOK AT THEIR REAL VALUE. THEIR REAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS. And then hire them, promote them, recommend them, back them, defend them.
But what you say is, "I don't know about them..."
You kill their reputation with your showy concern for all they've been through--and how it's "damaged" them. You take their accomplishments and turn them into pathology. You discount their strength by being frightened of it.
You aren't on the side of the poor if this is your attitude. You hate them. And you step on their necks.
Perhaps when they steal from your garbage can and leave your trash everywhere it's because fuck you. Not because they're too traumatized to know no better.