It seems that society will assume poor people all too often got to the point that they are at by their own means. Many people think that you are what you make of yourself and if someone is poor then it is because of their own accord. Whether they are lazy, not ambitious or smart enough, or just unlucky, it is assumed they have the power to turn things around. However, the structure of our society makes it so there will always be people on the bottom rungs of the economical ladder. If we could design it some other way where everyone would prosper, I am not sure that we would change our ways because we are so ingrained in our current methods that we would most likely highly resist any changes that are attempted.