The rich are rich because they have made good choices in life; they are generally productive and they mostly keep doing whatever is required to maintain their wealth. When people are poor, and stay poor, it's usually because they keep making poor choices and are generally unproductive.
Having said that, class status is not static. The poor often move up to middle class and some become very wealthy. And there are the wealthy who take big risks and go bankrupt. The charts that show a big gap between rich and poor don't tell that story and that leads some people to think that the rich and poor are always the same people.
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