It is not designed to keep the poor poor.
It is designed to protect the rich and keep the rich rich.
The rich know that limiting the amount of people in the rich club helps the rich stay rich.
To the rich the poor are toilet paper use them and flush them down the drain when you are done with them.
We can think of it like a pyramid scheme, same type that Ponzi schemes do operate, where those at the top keep getting rich by the day, every devastating situation and economic crisis seems to benefit them in a way, with the poor getting reaped from how much they have to give to survive and the rich at the end of it’s benefits.
Every now and then, some poor forks gets to break out but, they only make the pyramid taller.
Once the poor entertains the thought of schemes been devised to make them remain poor, it creates a submissive mindset to that idea in their subconsciousness and that’s how, a breakout becomes even more difficult.