My grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."
Classism will be the last great -ism to come crashing down, because people are always willing to blame the poor and lower-class for their situation.
"If they just got a job..." "If they just worked harder..." "If they focused on getting an education..." "If they saved some money..." "If they weren't so lazy..."
NO. No one deserves to live in poverty.
This isn't a lifestyle choice; this is a systematic failure.