There is no good reason to choose to remain poor, as poverty can bring different challenges in life.
Education, skills development and efforts to improve personal economic conditions can help avoid poverty.
No one wants to be poor forever and that's why many are trying their best to get out of it by doing those things in their capacity that shall bring them good life in the future.
First start off with having a good education but what OP is trying to tell if you want to be poor forever, you should yourself if you're doing a bad habits through on what he has mentioned.
That's true, because generally everyone wants financial freedom, so many people are looking for work by trying their best and working hard with the aim of achieving financial freedom. as you said, they work hard to get out of poverty, not survive poverty, if they really want to survive poverty then they don't need to bother doing things that lead to money, just being lazy is enough to help, but it seems No one wants their life to continue in the poverty phase.
I don't know what OP's purpose is for holding a title like this, because basically everyone doesn't want to be in poverty forever. Also, the large number of children attending school means that they must have an education that can guarantee their future, therefore it is almost impossible for anyone to want to survive in poverty.