which is wealthier

basically what it comes down to is where your morals lie. If you love money more than anything else, well then, i imagine you would select Bob as the wealthier of the two. But if you believe that family and friends are more important you'd have to say Bill is wealthier. Bill does not make tons of money but he survives. He does have a wife and children that love him and that may be enough for him. Then there is bob. Bob works all the time and he is divorced from his wife and has two kids that don't live with him. Now bob makes a lot of money, a lot of income but he works all the time. What good is the money without time to spend it. Bob doesn't see his kids hardly ever but spoils them on christmas eve. Bob doesn't have anyone else to share his money with. From looking at the different situations it seems pretty obvious that Bill is wealthier for obvious reasons

why are people poor?

I think that people are poor for several reasons. One is because, they are lazy and don't want to work. Or it is possible that they don't have any quality traits to offer employees. They may not be top quality employees that they are looking for. I also think though that someone who got it easy and was spoiled as a child could turn out to be poor when they're older. They grow soft and expect the world to be handed too them and when it gets hard they don't know what to do. People who do not learn how to survive earlier on in life, are not going to be rich. People who're poor are most often people with no work ethic, that don't seem to care too much about anything in life. Thats what i think anyway.