Poor people will always be poor because,,, they are poor.
Yep, it ain't because they bought $20 in lottery tickets in a year or bought a boat or travel trailer.
Their lifestyle is nothing but bad decisions.
I used to work with a guy, this was a decent engineering office. He was the trailer trash of the office. It wasn't like he made much less than most in the office, his lifestyle was what kept him living like he worked part-time at Dollar General. He didn't know anything different.
Always broke as church mouse, always itching for payday Friday. Always drove some duct-taped, zip-tied POS vehicle. Everyone else in the office lived a decent middle-class life.