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
this is true
another crazy thing is that when you become rich it's really hard to become poor again
class mobility is much harder upwards than the other way around
as my grandpa used to say "to do it with money is easy, I want to see you doing without it"