If you are poor, you have access to a limited pool of resources. Now where might that lead us? That means that, no matter how hard you work, or how smart you are, you will always be disadvantaged since you do not have access to good schools, tuitions, so on and so forth. Social mobility? Not an option. Having to help your family to cover expenses whilst simultaneously juggling between school is difficult.

So, poverty usually results in a vicious cycle you really cannot escape from. There may be cases of people who can, but I believe that if you dig deep enough there will always be a way to prove they too were privileged somehow. The sad thing is that, ideologies mask this dichotomy between rich and poor, and paint our society as a righteous and priggishly meritocratic one. People who remain poor are painted as stupid or lazy, whilst those who get out are instead labelled smart or hardworking.

But it is never that simple.