https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7k9d7g/a-complex-systems-theorist-explains-why-the-poor-arent-to-blame-for-poverty

When things don’t go our way, it is easy to blame ourselves for not anticipating and dodging the misfortunes we’ve fallen into. But even worse than our own internal monolog about these shortcomings—whether they be economic, academic, or professional—is the lack of empathy they can evoke in others. 

Believing that the misfortune of others is their own doing, for example that a poor person must be poor because they are lazy, has directly led to policies that make it difficult to rise above such circumstances once you’ve fallen into them.