Are the poor genetically inferior and lazy?

I have heard from some the suggestion that the poor are genetically inferior and/or lazy, and this is why they are poor. I find this belief offensively dumb.

For every person that scrambles up to the top and beats their circumstances, through hard work and sacrifice, they push another, or more down to the bottom. that's the nature of the structure. it's very rare to escape the cycle of poverty, because if you're uneducated along with your family and friends and the afflictions of poverty keep you down, then it's infinitely harder to beat your circumstances regardless of how physically intelligent you are. we can't deny the existence of privilege.

Contrast this with someone with 4 million in assets, each year they will earn a minimum of $400,000 through investments. they don't need to lift a finger, and many don't, unless they want even greater returns, then they pick up the phone and call a better stock broker. their kids will be highly educated at private schools and inherit a sum of money greater than the last generations. they make money because they already have money, with the money they buy things made by the workers, without contributing anything to society.

So through their ownership of capital, they have this power at our expense. the $400,000 lays claim to the real resources, the actual physical wealth of the society at that one point. the rich get even richer, because the money which they extracted from the system, from workers in the form of profit, now competes for goods, services and property that the poor need. the system allows the rich to continually increase their share of the pie, so even as the pie grows, the growth of the assets which the top 5% own still outstrips the assets of the bottom 95%, it's getting worse not better and this disparity is growing, everywhere.

The poor are not genetically inferior or lazy, they're struggling, hard working and they still can't change their circumstances, because our society does not develop the potential of the bottom 95%, the workers, it exploits them at every turn, as wage slaves with no say, you just get to pick between the left and right factions of the capitalist party each election, there's really no major difference between them and at the end of the day, they lie about what they will do in power anyway.

If we're going to fix this situation, or at least improve it, we need to start by being aware of the structure and not be blind sighted by the day to day soap opera which is politics as portrayed by the media. it's far more complicated, interesting and important than what the media are showing us, because our lives and the lives or future generations are at stake.

San Paulo, Brazil. our filthy rich are more obscured, over there they just flaunt it. The disparity between rich and poor is not humane, it is not natural, it is not sustainable, it is not inevitable. It is fundamentally immoral and when capitalism is truly understood, we are in a better position to start questioning it's validity as a social and economic structure