[MrB]

Poor people are more likely to employ outward “wealth signals” to others, because of their self conscious awareness of lack of relative success.

Conspicuous consumption among “the poor”:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2008/01/cos_and_effect.html

[dfwgator]

If you transferred all of the money from the rich to the poor overnight, the rich would have it all back within a year.