Poverty may not cause boredom . The largest group of drug users in my country, Ireland, is middle class women, not poor junkies . Drug use and sex to fight boredom is across all social classes . Just look at the actor who died recently Mr Hoffman . Manhattan upper class relapsed and died , may he rest in peace . The man must have been deeply unhappy and bored.

So your argument is that a job will take a person above the poverty line ? What about the Walmart workers on welfare or the many other examples of the working poor around the world . Having a job is no guarantee a person will every achieve wealth . Your understanding of poverty is naive and a typical neoliberal hogwash . What about the structural reasons of poverty ? But that does not suit the advantaged persons mindset that he is a self made man and got to where he is because he worked hard . " People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."

C. Wright Mills