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Plenty of people can't afford to pay for their homes. I think that a person from 1913 could accept that a person who could afford the food to get fat is poor if they live in an apartment with twice the people it's meant to hold and have to budget their paycheck down to the cent to keep their belongings from being repossessed.
Unfortunately, distributional problems also often end up being solved badly, see for instance the rise of the Soviet Union.