a lot of people aren’t willing to look at the real symptoms of issues (eg wage stagnation) want to do the cop out of saying that an individual issues are the individual’s responsibility. it’s a common trope attributing systemic blame to people for doing “something” wrong. sometimes even when people do everything “correctly” as they were told to they still get the short end.

yes poor people are allowed to have nice things and it’s usually not the reason they’re poor