> some people have to be the relatively poor compared to the rest

Why? And not why in terms of a trivial statistical tautology, where a bell curve has to have a left tail. Why, in terms of, what downstream causal effect of deliberately maintaining large cohorts of poor people accomplishes something desirable?

The cynic in me says that the visible presence of people dying on the street is very much intended to send a message, "work hard or this will be your fate".