How does your socioeconomic status provide you choice in your living environment in terms of access to quality food/water, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc? Do you think we have an obligation to help those who, because of their socioeconomic status, have no choice in their living environment?
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One is defined by the other.
Your second question is not based on any particular philosophy. In nature we have no obligation to anyone, but that is not a pleasant way to live, so societies form to get more bodies working on a problem. That is co-operation, and it works so well that many types of government form to force co-operation. But coercion is not co-operation, and that is why all societies so far have eventually collapsed. So when you encounter the word 'obligation', the appropriate response is "Says who?"