Not quite but securing funding for research is obvi very important in academia.
Do you have experience in academia or know/have spoken with professors and others in academic world to know what it’s about?
Another question: do you actually know any low income or socioeconomically disadvantaged “poor” people? Have you had any conversations with them or socialized with any blue collar people?
Contrary to your assumptions about those who receive free healthcare, food, shelter, cell phone, etc — you infer that they’re just lazy people who are laying around begging for free stuff and have a sense of entitlement — that is NOT the case majority of the time.
I’m going to make a guess that your frame of reference (family, friends, network) is upper middle class and up people, mostly white?
I suggest you try mentoring a low income/“poor” person and actually talk to some of them one-on-one, as a human being (without judgment) to get a sense of what life is really like for them.
Perhaps you can open doors and help them succeed. Opportunities and knowledge are NOT equal in society and there’s a correlation with money and race/ethnicity/sex that a person is born into.
