Many Chinese people believe that a person is rich or poor because of their fate.
Others may think that people are poor because they are lazy. According to a public opinion poll a few months ago, most of the respondents said that one should depend on oneself to survive and that it is immoral to depend on the government. This finding reflects the perception of many people in Hong Kong who still see the failures of the individual as the origin of poverty and who dismiss the structural problems in society which give rise to the problem. Since globalization depends on cheap labor, many companies in Hong Kong have moved to China to reduce their expenses, or they have hired imported laborers from mainland China as well as other Asian countries. Moreover, Hong Kong now tops the list among countries in Asia with the highest level of income inequality.