Why poverty?

Title of a project for which Victor Kossakovsky made this short film on people sleeping in ATMs in Berlin. As are found elsewhere. Nothing new perhaps, and it’s one easy thing to feel, another to do something about it, but here is George Carlin’s take, as quoted by someone reacting to Kossakovsky’s piece:

The rich have all the money, pay none of the taxes.
The middle class does all of the work, pays almost all of the taxes
The poor are put here to scare the s— out of the middle class, keep them going to those jobs.