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Are you asking it it's socially acceptable of being poor?

It's a difficult question to answer or to ask. Some being people gave up motivation to get out of poverty for political or personal reasons, some people are happy enough in poverty, some people try hard to get out of poverty but are lacking education, degrees, experience, opportunity, appropriate network or just the proper social norm that let them be accepted in an environment that allows them to get out of poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism

“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes: 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".”