As opposed to painting people in poverty with a broad brush, saying that they either destroy value or don't generate life-sustaining value?

Considering I grew up in abject poverty, I'm sorry but I'm not going to let remarks like that fly. That doesn't deserve a pass.

A) It is objectively true that there is a cohort of poor people who produce nothing of economic value and who consume a disproportionate share of government services through vandalism, sanitation problems, assistance, and etc.

B) The inability to produce enough to sustain yourself is the basis for defining poverty.

Most of them don't.

And I grew up in poverty too. My first real paid job paid three dollars an hour for farmwork -- in the 90s, and I thought I was living like a king.