That is by design. My point is that "social state" does not exist for the benefit of the poor. Poor are just fodder. It exists to prevent middle class, through

That is by design. My point is that "social state" does not exist for the benefit of the poor. Poor are just fodder. It exists to prevent middle class, through income taxation, from accumulating wealth and becoming rich and thus getting to be a competition to entrenched existing rich who are heirs of the people who became rich before social state came into existence. America has enormous inequality but the society is fluid and vast majority of rich are first-generation rich and a good (but not too big) chunk of them even come from poor families. Europe has little inequality comparatively but on a flip side, it effectively has a caste system. Only people who break through it are foreigners who already arrived with cash.