Hard work divides the rich and poor. In a free country hard work and specialisation will make you rich.
Get so good at something that you will have to be paid well for your services.
If people can't afford the internet to learn stuff, go to a public library and study or use the greatest resource for education the world has ever known to man,the internet.
That being said I pity people when they are poor but anyone can cross the metaphorical road and become rich.