People are poor primarily because they make a bad life decisions and keep making them - get that tat, spend $50 or more a week on scratch off lotto tickets, take that expensive vacation on financed money, buy a new car instead of keeping the old one running, etc. and maybe they make bad life choices (and owning a pack of pit bulls seems to me to be a seriously bad life choice) because they’re stupid or maybe they feel entitled. Anyway poor and stupid seem to go together. And then there are the assholes who just have to have the nastiest dog because it makes people feel uncomfortable.
It’s a message to the well off. I may be at the bottom of the totem pole of life out on this sidewalk you’re going to get off.