The premise of the choices, which you conveniently left out, was that a significant percentage of people would be unable to provide a sizable income for themselves, because they lack the intellectual capacities. From that the binary answer is quite reasonable; the inbetween would be that people would be able to make themselves non-poor, and we started out by saying that that would not be feasible.

Unless you have another middle of the road, which I would be interested to hear about. When claiming a false dichotomy the customary thing to do is to provide a(n) example(s) of other options, however short.