I think the reason it’s so hard to garner empathy for the poor is because so many Americans believe they are a rags-to-richest success story, that they pulled themselves up by their boot straps. It’s a “poverty is in the eyes of the beholder” type situation.

But unless you come from generational poverty, you simply don’t know how much the system is designed to keep you there. If you haven’t experience that you just don’t know.