Ad Lazarum

An appeal to poverty, or ad lazarum, is jumping to the conclusion that a position is correct merely because it has to do with poverty in some shape or form. This appeal is particularly popular when people try to contrast what they consider the greed or excess of the upper class with what they deem to be the morality of the poor. However, saying that a destitute person is more appreciative than those who are better off is appealing to poverty, and it is therefore, fallacious. This is not necessarily true, and it does not make sense if the claim is not about impoverishment. Indeed, this appeal especially fallacious if money has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Real World Example
* Society can often be convinced by the morality of someone because of his or her poverty. Saying that priests are humbled because of their poverty so everyone should listen to them (especially concerning a topic that has nothing to do with money) is fallacious. 
Example in Literature 
* In Fitzgerald’s story The Rich Boy he writes, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. ” This is an appeal to the poor because the rich is portrayed in a negative, arrogant light while the poor are painted as wise, experienced and hardworking.
Visual Example