Argumentum ad lazarum or appeal to poverty is the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor, or it's incorrect because the speaker is rich. It is named after Lazarus

Lazarus and Dives

The Parable of the rich man and Lazarus is a well known parable of Jesus which appears in one of the Four Gospels of the New Testament....

, a beggar in a New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 parable

Parable

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human...

 who receives his reward in the afterlife.

This is popularly exploited as the statement, "Poor, but honest."

Examples

Family farms are struggling to get by so when they say we need to protect them, they must be on to something.

The homeless tell us it’s hard to find housing. Thus it must be.

The monks have forsworn all material possessions. They must have achieved enlightenment.

All you need to know about the civil war in that country is that the rebels live in mud huts, while the general who sends troops against them sits in a luxurious, air-conditioned office.

The opposite is the argumentum ad crumenam

Argumentum ad crumenam

An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is a logical fallacy of concluding that a statement is correct because the speaker is rich ....

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