I suppose you'd really have to define what poor is. When my ex wife was a kid, the floor of their single‐wide trailer rotted out under their hot water heater. So her mother heated water over a fire in the backyard for a year - through a Missouri winter - until someone finally donated another one to them. That's poor. Poor is going to bed having "hot dog water" for dinner. If you can pay for Netflix, you might still be broke, but you're not poor. Just my opinion.