What do you mean by rich? Some countries are not rich by comparison but you can stil have a decent life.

Humans were made to reproduce and expand. Trough pure luck of evolution we got in a position that we don’t need to be afraid of being eaten by lion, or dying from appendix infection, or getting impaled by some random warlord at the age of 5. By comparison sitting at the desk seems like a good deal.

But still, it’s the best thing the gen pop has.

I’m not talking riots, I’m talking voting.

Many other distractions, like skin color, religion, sex orientation. Poor have one advantage and that is the numbers, at least in democracies. So you need to gerrymander them in any way you can think about.