As I come back to this again I guess here's what I think it's really about: The implication that there's some correlation between how hard you work and poverty

As I come back to this again I guess here's what I think it's really about: The implication that there's some correlation between how hard you work and poverty. But most poor people I know work way harder than most "professional" people I know. If there's a correlation, it seems to me to be the reverse, poor people are, by neccessity to survive, as a general rule hustling a lot harder than wealthier people. As the OP actually kind of outlines.