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> I know it's unpopular to say, but most poor people are poor for reasons related to their genes, personality and upbringing, not because of the system.

Some kind of implied false dichotomy here. Is upbringing unrelated to the system?

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whoa

I won't say it's entirely decoupled but yes, it's mostly separate, I'm talking about the values that you learn from your parents and social peers as a child/teenager.

And they aren't affected by "the system" at all, I take it?

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