No one is better off staying poor, and no one that is rich today wants to be poor tomorrow. Everyone is working towards changing the financial status quo, at least to be able to feed themselves and their families.
In the present digital era, there's an open opportunity for the poor to be rich, and the rich to remain rich. Nobody that wants to remain stagnant in a place thinking that they are okay with the amount of money they have made, no need for them to work again or invest again
What makes the rich to be different from the poor is opportunity and smart work. If a poor man can get such an opportunity added to the sauce of hard work, he will get there and start having financial stability. The rich keeps getting richer why the poor are getting poorer because there is no opportunity that uplift them out of their present situations.
The rich will continue employing people to work for them, making money from them while paying workers peanut that will not take care of their needs. There is a big gate that separate the poor from the rich but many are still skeptical about that.