Why are there so many highly aware poor people in China?

A few days ago, I came across a post written by a delivery rider.
During his wait for orders, he wrote about two thousand words analyzing the contradiction between China's manufacturing overcapacity and insufficient domestic demand.
His logic was clear, the data accurate, and he even referenced economic models.
In the comments, someone said, "This level is better than our company's researchers."
Then someone checked his profile. The last update was posted at 2 a.m., with a picture of his earnings from a day of deliveries: 187 yuan.
The caption was just four words: "Today was okay."
I stared at that page for a long time.
Not because the contrast was particularly novel—
Stories like "Peking University graduate selling pork" or "985 graduate delivering food" are common online.
What made me stop was another feeling:
This person understands everything. He knows how the world operates, knows why he's in this position, and is even soberly aware of which forces have pushed him there.
But he can't do anything about it.
We call this group "high-awareness poor people," and this kind of dislocation is especially common in China. Why?
I'll analyze this from five levels: