After a Shanghai postgraduate student, Yang Yuanyuan committed suicide, people pitied this girl and commented on the cruelty of poverty. I searched online and found the whole process. 
Someone ridiculed her on studying for a bachelor degree while being so poor.
Yes. Even though we're taught that our society's ultimate goal is the complete equality of all human society, we all know it isn't. Being poor means if you don't study hard, you'll be poorer; but now education becomes a risky investment for the poor. You never know your struggle will pay off or not.
The incident all started from applying university commodation for her mother without result.
Perhaps the most painful thing for Chinese working-class is house price. House price goes up while salary goes down. Perhaps we shouldn't hold great expectation for our future.
Poverty or indifference? Well, society prefers speed to sympathy. The strongest one rules the world.