>You're imagining yourself but with no money. I bit like a politician who says they'll live on minimum wage for a week to show how "easy" it is. Try living at the bottom of the pile for a few years with your wife and daughter and see if it alters your character at all.
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>I lived at the bottom of the pile for over a decade and it did not lead me into a life of crime. It just made me work harder so that I would no longer be at the bottom of the pile...

But what if you did not have a job because you did not have that pretty face, or just the wrong skin color, or simply was raised in a family with a long history of poverty without any formal education, or even was raised in a neighborhood with CRIME written all over it? I've been raised in relative poverty, but managed to get there because I had decent parent and was smarter than the rest of the family. Does the fact that I am smarter make me a better person? Not everyone is born with the same capacity. Projection of your person onto another and therefore pointing fingers is therefore not fair.