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If you look at any person's basic situation, we all eat, wear clothes, have various things, live in houses or apartments, etc. All of those things we made by people, so basically all of our needs and comforts are the products of other people's work. To be a part of society is the goal of any person, and mostly that means giving back something in return for what we use ourselves; everyone deserves something for their work, and everyone's work that you use deserves something for you. If you are a regular person, you probably work and return about what you use, and are a meaningful part of society. Sometimes that whole system could be called "working class".
Everyone by necessity needs things and everyone by nature wishes to be a part of society and to fill a role. "The Poor" are those who are denied a role, who have jobs considered lowly or worthless, or who by some means or other kept out of society. Because they still need things, they are often hated as they have nothing sufficient to give in return. More often than not they are simply "working class" who got sick and couldn't afford the care needed to recover, or people who have been broken by some misfortune or other. In many societies, its "one strike and you're out".
If you think about the basic situation of using things made by other people's work, and working yourself in return, then of course there is the refinement (or complication) that all of this exchange is mediated by currency in our modern system. The maintenance of currency itself has some valid roles for people to play - banks are handy places to store it, you have to have cashiers to keep track of transactions, and so forth. But then there is an entirely artificial role beyond that, where people manipulate money and transactions to multiply their money, without actually producing or contributing anything. They leverage the profit of one deal into the influence needed to profit in another, they create phony markets which deal in deals, and potential deal, and in the risks of potential deals, and so on. In any sane society, this would be seen as fraud, theft, and parasitic criminality destructive to society as a whole. In our society, however, the people who practice this are "the wealthy", and they generally receive nothing but deference and respect.
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