The noblesse of poverty

Everyone knows that being poor makes you noble. After all, if it weren't for the major ennoblement of their situation and the real sense of community fostered by having no one else to rely on, how would anyone be able to stand it? Now, I keep seeing these people, still alive after some time on the streets, so clearly it can't be all that bad.

Not to mention how suffering purifies the spirit. Oh yes, we'd better not ease any of that suffering, otherwise their nobility might be wounded.

If poverty is basically harmless, why then the status quo is right and just, and there's no reason to change it. How splendid.