Some people are poor because they are not working, they have refused to work, so they are the primary cause of their lack of funds to satisfy their personal needs and stop depending on someone's, if you encounter such people, the best advice is to tell them to just go and look for a job first. They should start by getting a job, after which they can start saving little by little to invest.
This is simply self-inflicted poverty. We have such people around my area who want to relax all day and depend on people to survive. They will give you different reasons why they are not gainfully employed. I asked one of them why he was at home during work hours, and he told me that the work he was doing was very stressful. And I begin to ask myself which job is easy to execute. I have a friend who lives in America, and he works like a machine just to survive. Yeah, the best advice for these people is to dump excuses and work.