That's not necessarily true. I don't know if this is empirically true in most situations, but you can at least conceive of a situation in which higher prices r

That's not necessarily true. I don't know if this is empirically true in most situations, but you can at least conceive of a situation in which higher prices result in the poor (as a group) having a better chance of obtaining something. In the limiting case where something costs 1p and you can buy an unlimited amount, someone wealthy can just swoop in and buy literally all of it and throw it in the bin.