First of all, it is incredibly expensive to be poor. If you’re poor, everything costs more. If your insurance is shitty or nonexistent, medical bills cost more. If your expenses total more than your income per month — and money is objective this way — you always wind up in the hole. You need to work, you need more jobs: in most places this means you need a car.

But suppose your car breaks. If you buy a used beater of a car, the kind a poor person is still unlikely to be able to afford without tremendous financial upheaval, the maintenance costs and sudden breakdowns will create bills that the poor person cannot pay, especially because there are no warranties in place. If you need to lease something, either (a) you need a cosigner, or (b) you will pay two or three times per month what a wealthier person with better credit will pay. Suppose something else breaks. You’re on a budget. You can only budget so much when your expenses exceed your income, or when you just break even.

Not if, but when, something extra goes wrong, and you have no choice but to fix it — your heater stops working, say, in the dead of winter — then it’s time to play a fun game: Which Bill Can I Pay? This game is often followed by an equally awful game of What’s Going to Collections Next? and, finally, a lightning round of How Bad’s My Credit Score Now?

And if you have children, you know children are a money pit, and that their exigent needs are unpredictable and sometimes shockingly expensive. Why did you have a child if you were poor? Not all of us did this on purpose; not all of us had a choice in the matter; not all of us were always poor; but if they exist, they count on us to feed them, clothe them, house them, make time to be with them, to love and care for them, to give them a childhood and joy and freedom from too many adult worries. This is a difficult security blanket to provide when you’re freezing your ass off yourself.

But the short answer to this question is that poverty begets poverty in countless insidious little ways, only a bare few of which I have highlighted above. Some of you know that I was driven by medical expenses and sudden unemployment and a run of bad luck, and then by the inadequacy of the pay I make, as a single father and an adjunct professor pushing my way back into teaching, to post this. The Quora community, fortunately, is overflowing with kind people.

But I am not the only person who has been put in such a position, and this answer is not about me except insofar as I am a member of the working poor. (I mean, it is, but…)

Suppose that instead of a single dad whose various jobs don’t add up to the costs of survival in a state where everything, even the polluted air one breathes, is expensive, you are a single mother in Kansas, and that you receive enough child support (barely) to take care of your son of whom you have custody 6–7 days of the week every week because your ex is remarried and tends to ignore his first kid — but who also ties your hands so you can’t leave your immediate environs, however desolate the prospects for gainful employment might be. Now suppose, on top of that, you had eye surgery when you were younger to improve fading eyesight, and instead you were damn near blinded, and can no longer work in the profession for which you were trained, and at which you were very good. No one expects to walk into a doctor’s office one day and come out near-blind the next. But there it is. Now you can’t do your old job anymore.

Imagine that, clinging to what scant employment you can find as a single mother, you find your already damaged eyesight fading toward total blindness. And there is no way out, no hope, because the cycle of poverty rolls over you ever and always, and your only concern is keeping your food on the table, gas in the car, the car itself not falling apart, etc., etc., etc. In those circumstances you might find also find yourself in straits similar to mine, and you might have fewer followers than I am fortunate enough to have. You might have to do something like this too, eventually, when the perfect storm lined up.

The person I’ve just described is one of the most generous, kind, decent, and funny people I know, and is someone at least 3,300 of you know too. If you’re reading this particular answer of mine on poverty, then, the “TL;DR” is simple:

It is a vicious cycle;
It is a condition social realities work to punish;
It leaves good, hardworking people — not just “lazy” unemployed people, who may actually make more money on unemployment than the working poor do holding down jobs — in desperate straits, and finally willing to pawn their dignity in hopes of making ends meet;
And the people who do that will often do it not for themselves, but for the well-being of their children, none of whose fault this ever is, even if their existence (for which no child has ever asked) is among the reasons poverty can prove inescapable.
For that reason, people like my friend (and me, but forget me right now, or until you’ve helped her first) need more help than the current social structure affords them.
Asking theoretical questions about poverty on Quora is easy enough, and it can be done to elicit honest accounts of how the poor stay poor, or with the presumption that poverty is the fault of the poor person.

But I know that the better angels of Quorans’ natures are mighty indeed. That second link I posted? I hope you’ll investigate it and help. I don’t have a pot to piss in and I already have.

That’s another thing about poor people: they have little, but they give what they can, because they know what it means to hang by a string. Those who have much tend to give less, perhaps because they believe no luck was involved in where they ended up, or perhaps because they buy into myths about self-reliance and bootstrapping and rugged individualism. But I find that to bespeak one of the deepest disconnects in the current form of capitalism practiced in my country: that the greater one’s resources are, the less, oftentimes, is one’s charity. And that, I think, is to miss a central point about life in the modern world, with wealth and income inequality widening:

"Lack of goals" ,"Laziness" and "Self-content"

Many people believe that all successful people are born rich to begin with and are born gifted/talented. This is of course not true all the time. 

What most successful and rich people have in common is their "ambition" and "goals" for the future which unfortunately some people lack. People who classify themselves as poor without doing any effort are just plain lazy and are already content with their lives. They are nowhere near trying to make their lives better thus they remain poor and unsuccessful

On the off chance that you are inquiring as to why most "poor" individuals within cultivated Western nations with satisfactory foundations are poor the appropriate response is very straightforward… 

Serotonin. 

I know this may appear somewhat odd to you however give me a chance to clarify. 

Serotonin and dopamine (among others) are the essential neurotransmitters in charge of: 

Your state of mind 

Sexual drive 

Inspiration 

Hunger 

Rest 

Social capacity 

What's more, significantly more. 

Presently… 

Serotonin levels are dictated by a wide range of elements from eating regimen to hereditary qualities to physical wellness to sexual achievement. 

In any case, here's a fascinating little tidbit. 

At whatever point you "lose" regardless of whether in sports, in cash, or in life your mind starts to discharge less serotonin and dopamine. 

When you "win" in any undertaking, the inverse happens. 

Presently I need you to envision the average "Poor" family in the Unified States. 

They have put in years, in some cases ages in destitution. 

They don't know how to profit and grow up trusting that they are bound to be poor that rich individuals are all "Covetous mongrels" and that school is the approach (which is an unpleasant thought in the event that you are poor coincidentally). 

In addition to the fact that they are naturally introduced to a domain that doesn't breed perfection or monetary wellbeing, they are naturally introduced to a family that is most likely uneducated on how the mind impacts achievement. 

They are generally uninformed of the impacts that these neurotransmitters have on their way of life and achievement. 

Hence they can't enhance their lives for ideal neurotransmitter and psychological capacity. 

Which clearly implies less cash. 

They eat handled nourishments and overflowing measures of trans fats… which brings down serotonin. 

They don't work out… which brings down serotonin. 

They work extend periods of time with crappy rest… Which brings down serotonin. 

Et cetera it goes. 

At the point when your mind is out of adjust you are both physically and mentally unequipped for doing the sorts of work that will create genuine riches. 

Except if you comprehend this and can cure the circumstance you will be everlastingly stuck in an interminable cycle of destitution and (likely) sadness. 

Clearly there are different components influencing everything here, for example, mental sickness, family issues, and so on and so forth. 

In any case, when you peel back the layers of the onion and truly take a gander at the exploration of what's happening in the mind (which, let be honest, is in charge of how much cash you make) it turns out to be quickly evident that most needy individuals don't see how to nurture and improve their brains with the goal that they can make the progress they want.

Poor people becomes more poor and rich people becomes more rich as this is true because poor people have no money no house to leave life likes rich people does. Poor people are called as backward class of people but i am not agree with this because if we are leaving in this world everyone has equal rights and everyone should get it . Rich man has also struggle a lot to set their life well but poor people are not willing to do this things because they are just trained to raise their hand in front of other in the word poor. 
Think before 20-25 year only few people was rich but today there are lots of people because of their hard work and they are at that level because of their mind set and goals. poor people are not trying  by their own to reach at that point where opportunities are available they just ignore and say we cannot do because we are poor. This is the basic reason after the poor man to be more poor.

well in this regard i just wanted to say if you born poor it's not your mistake and if you die poor it's definitely your mistake. so overcome to your povert what should you do you better know so stop wasting time in  asking question go and achieve your goals ;)

well in this regard i just wanted to say if you born poor it's not your mistake and if you die poor it's definitely your mistake. so overcome to your povert what should you do you better know so stop wasting time in  asking question go and achieve your goals ;)