This isn't to suggest that _some_ rich don't go cruising the ghetto looking for some hi tops to steal, just that it isn't common or necessary.
It's certain that if some great game changing event like a combination of climate change and quantum computing ever leveled everyone to subsistence level lifestyles that many of the former rich would turn out to be, to put it delicately, "resourceful."
They will laugh at spiritual wealth and they apparently have never been told about intellectual property law.
A recent silly study said the happiest English made 100K /year about $180,000/yr.
A study on the incomes of the most desperate isn't necessary as everyone already knows the maximum of that function.
Alternatives are censored from the political debate.
Bret Cahill
"Happiness? Only an Englishman wants happiness."
-- Nietzsche