I mean both can technically be true.

No one chooses to be poor but bad financial decisions can make a bad situation worse. Given that we live in a capitalist system it does stand to reason that we should try to avoid poor spending habits since that can make life harder for us. When capitalism is gone that may no longer be the case, but sadly capitalism isn’t gone yet and we have to operate within it by the conditions it sets for us.

Which sucks, sure, but this is a constant throughout history. The feudal lords didn’t care if the peasants were personally pacifists; they got conscripted into the levies regardless and it was either serve the lord in war time or hang by the neck until death and until the pacifists were ready to have the lord lynched, burn his castle, and seize his wealth the choice was death, service, or banditry.

Think of it in the context of that “we should improve society somewhat” comic.