Literary usage of the term "pauperism" has frequently focused on its portrayal as both a social condition and an indicator of broader systemic malfunctions. In works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the word was employed to highlight the intertwined nature of poverty with crime, urban decay, and even perceived mental deficiencies. For example, authors like Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein [1, 2] and W. E. B. Du Bois [3] used the term to underscore how poverty could foster environments conducive to criminality and ignorance. Jacob A. Riis, in his influential work on New York tenements, repeatedly invoked pauperism as a marker of urban neglect and the inevitable degradation within impoverished districts [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Additionally, the expansive use of the term is evident in other genres, from Hans Gross’s exploration of crime and social heredity [10] to Marxist critiques of economic structures that, according to Engels and Marx, perpetuate pauperism even amidst expanding populations [11]. Even historical literary debates, such as in Victor Hugo’s reference [12] and discussions on legal status and gender [13], reveal a period-wide preoccupation with pauperism as symbolizing not just material deprivation but a multifaceted challenge affecting society at large [14, 15].