Because in America, the poor hate themselves. I have a hunch that only Americans are really ashamed of poverty--so much, that the poor will deny being poor, and actually spend money they need just to put up a facade. The war on the poor begins at home.
I think that the Five Stages of Grieving actually some up poverty pretty well--people just get tired fighting the current and lose hope, never have any hope to begin with, or are absolutely living under a rock/with their heads in the sand.
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