Many people are lazy, regardless of the poverty status.

They are out of work, out of money and out of things to do that are free. Most of them can't even clean house because they are homeless. I don't know about you, but if I were in that situation, I might get a little tired of trying to survive.

poor people are so much better than rich people . rich people are so much lazier than poor people . i know why , becase i have seen it my self !

I imagine that lazy poor people are lazy for the same reasons that lazy rich people and lazy middle-class people are lazy, i.e., for any number of individual reasons. I don't know if it was your intention or not, but as an American I find this question very offensive. It has been fashionable in this country since the Reagan years to place blanket blame on poor people for their plight. There's this base assumption that the poor are lazy and they're all scamming the social welfare system. Aside from the fact that it is rarely, if ever, an exercise in accuracy to paint all of any group with the same brush, this attitude speaks to a fundamental lack of compassion that has become endemic to our society. Poor people in this country have become another "whipping boy" to allow the callous among us to feel good about themselves, their self-centeredness, their stinginess and their greed. The people living at or below the poverty line that I've come across during my life have never been lazy. Lord knows many of them should have had the right to be. Doing back-breaking work that most of us wouldn't sully our dainty hands with just to make the frayed ends of their daily existence meet. Struggling to keep their heads above water in the "land of plenty." Enduring the disdain of people who cannot see that "there but for the grace of God" go they.

I think you cannot say that in general. I think poor people rather have given it up after years of trying. To be honest with you, we have no money at all at the moment. I lost my job and I am 24/7 looking for one. Normally I would find another job in a week, but somehow I seem to be not good enough for everything. It wears me down. I normally work fulltime and I feel a very heavy pressure. I feel guilty because my family has nothing to spend because of me and I feel guilty I still did not have a job. Although this is not something I can do anything about. I know I am not being lazy, I have been to almost every jobcenter or company in town and still there is nothing for me. Sometimes I just feel like doing nothing anymore, I try so bloody hard but they keep rejecting me or invite me but in the end its always 'the other matched better'. It is hard to remain motivated but I am not someone who gives up, when I feel down I remember the reason why and make way to the next jobcenter.

Some of the poor people I know work terribly hard. They just have very shit pay. Of course some of them could be lazy I donno, could be depression.

maybe because they have lost hope within themelves