I'm sorry, but this is news to you? I'll spare you my mistakes that knocked me down a few pegs on the socioeconomic ladder from where my parents are, but, yes, everyone has a story. Sometimes it's a sob story that gets you a few bucks panhandling. Sometimes it's filled with regret and mistakes and misfortune but there's an invincible pride that hides all of that and you don't hear those stories unless you get to know someone. I'm not sure I'd know this if I hadn't had to work with the living poor for three years so I'm not trying to judge. But no, no one wants or deserves to be poor and more often than not they're poor because they were born into it and are maybe doing a little better than where they came from with the limited resources they had.