text: I think you are reading your modern day social justice mentality onto the story...the people being fed spent three days with Jesus listening to His teaching. It doesn't necessarily relate that they are poor. Jesus would have been a bad host if He turned them away without feeding them and they collapsed on their way home. It is Jesus who multiplied the loaves and fishes not because someone in the crowd shared what they already had...otherwise why would Jesus needed to perform a miracle or the Gospel writer found it noteworthy to write if it wasn't a miraculous sign from Our Lord?