Why do most poor people remain poor?

 It takes money to make money, and by definition,  poor people don't have money. It  

 Most financial advice is written by and for the middle and upper classes. There is very little publicly available financial advice that is relevant to the poor.  

 Most political efforts  on behalf of  the poor are ideological  and  not  “realistic.”  Poor communities are laboratories for all manner of crazy socioeconomic theories,  and when those theories inevitably fail, it is the poor who are blamed eight times out of  10.  

  The poor have very limited political power and are therefore often unable to assert their policies.  

 Poor people who become middle class will inevitably leave poor communities behind physically,  culturally, and politically.  that is,  brain drain 

 Poor people are hated in almost every culture,  which makes getting help even more difficult.  

  The poor do not have the political and financial resources to protect themselves against phenomena such as urbanization or capital flight.  The poor were hit hardest by the economic downturn and benefited least from the economic recovery.  Poor people lack the skills to gain high-paying work, as skills usually cost money to acquire 

 Many times poor people are a hated “Other-ized” group, so their poverty is enforced by law or custom. Too many examples to list 

 In some countries, the poor themselves are divided along tribal lines — race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, etc — which makes political unity near impossible and ensures divide-and-conquer 

 Poor people are usually contained to the worst lands or more isolated parts of a city, making it harder to build resources or find good work 

 The poor face stiff competition for “good jobs” from more educated and better-trained middle-class workers and elites, a competition they usually can't win without state backing, which is always limited. What’s left are the bad jobs.  Poor people are most constrained by the law and benefit the least from the law. Laws are usually written by and for the middle classes and elites 

 Despite all of this, poor people are usually blamed for their poverty (or God/fate is), so society washes its hands of its obligation to help 

 Most poor people aim to not be poor (reasonably), not to improve the lot of the poor broadly. This greatly influences the political actions taken by and for them.