I am not sure but I think you are trying to say: We should not forget that professionals have a lot more advantages than the working poor. Comparing them in t

I am not sure but I think you are trying to say: We should not forget that professionals have a lot more advantages than the working poor. Comparing them in this way is useful, but may hide the serious problems and lack of opportunity that the working poor suffer: professionals inflict this problem on themselves where the working poor have limited choices.