in fact I do not agree if people who do not have a car or do not have said to be poor. Yes, you are right. we do have to see it from another perspective. that is, people who can still make ends meet, they are not poor. poor people are people who have no home, and they ask for money from others.
Well, as for the standard definition of being poor, it would mean not being able to make ends meet and being penniless. It would actually depend on someone's perspective whether someone is poor on not because if you are living in a city wherein everyone in the neighbor hood has a car and you have none then you can be considered poor to them but if you go to the province and most people in there are just getting by and you are earning well compared to them then you are considered well off for them. It is about being below average in a place wherein you can be considered poor or not.
Then by today's standard someone living in a wooden hut in the woods would be considered poor, even if that person has his own garden, water source, solar panels to provide electricity, and is living on his own piece of land. It's funny how the world changes. 100 years ago nobody would call that man poor. Now if you don't have a car and a mobile phone people are treating you like a caveman.