Lot's of just-world hypothesis thinking in this thread.
There are many reasons why somebody can end up without wealth that don't involve them being lazy, unmotivated, or not working. Here in the United States a big one is just becoming chronically ill.
I am doing pretty well myself. Make a top 1% income for my age. Save about two-thirds of it (after taxes.) Likely can retire in five years when I am 37 years old, if I were to want to (I don't.) But I am well-aware I am a few unlucky circumstances away from being penniless.
And while yes I did work hard to get where I am, it wasn't without the assistance of society and a few lucky advantages.
I can guarantee you that if I were born in the family I was born into (single-parent waitress as a mother) in say the 1890's instead of the 1990's, I wouldn't have been able to move between classes (working class -> professional-managerial class.) And that is really the end society of the "equality under the law is all we need" mindset -- the Gilded Age.
