TK, And I countered your point that it is often not a choice but inherant in a capitalist society. I take it you believe that everyone, in an ideal world, should be middle class or above if they would only try. Isn't that socialism? Isn't that redistribution of the wealth? Whom does the lower class take from to enter the middle class? Has to come from either the middle class or the upper class in order to prop up the entire lower class.
Sure there are all sorts of individual circumstances of people who try and those who don't and of people who succesfully climbed out of poverty but you made a blanket statement which I refute.