Being poor is not something you can tell someone, you need to live it to experience the horror, you are despised and disrespected for something you had no control over
A significant contingent of the population does not believe that to be true.
To say poor people have no control is to say they don't have free agency. They are definitely disadvantaged, but not without some control.
Babies cannot control their circumstances, nor do they have any free agency. They are entirely without any control.