The conservative agenda is to keep people poor and less educated so that they can't understand that is happening and can't fight back because they're too busy working trying to earn enough money to survive.

Then add on top of it what I said before plus setting the system up so that people rely on charity to make the rich people feel good about making donations to "help the poor" because that's the Christian thing to do.

Instead of implementing a proper social safety net and measures that would prevent people from becoming poor in the first place, like building social housing that would accommodate anyone who can't pay a regular rent, universal basic income, legalizing all drugs to prevent people from going to jail and getting stuck in the loop of being poor from being in jail instead of getting proper care, etc.