Should the poor continue getting oppressed?

I might have forgotten how this axiom goes, it's more of like a quote to me though which was said by one of the particularly great leaders in Africa. It says that when a rich man gets sick the poor man goes to his place and wishes him a well and safe recovery. But when the poor man gets sick he waits till he gets better and then goes to inform the rich man about his illness. Many times we gave often encountered the inequality between the rich and the poor. This inequality exists almost everywhere and in every place.

The concept of social equality doesn't work much in today's society. The rich oppress the poor and gets on with it. I remembered also that power tussle exists among the rich also. Each trying to be the best and most powerful over others and will do everything to attain superiority. I could remember a Korean drama series I watched sometimes back called "THE PENTHOUSE; WAR OF LIFE" where I see how the rich struggle among themselves in an unending competition and war. I also saw how the poor have no place where the rich men of the society stand. As a poor man, you can't even afford to send your child to the same school the rich send their wards.

Here, the rich take the law into their own hands, they seem to get off with the most deadly crimes they commit. The poor on the other hand has to commit the slightest crime and they are buried to the ground. Since I have come to believe that having money is some sort of power in society, only the rich can wield such power and flex it as they want or desire. Not all rich men are bad anyways. Some great powerful individuals believed in social equality without considering their great influence and worth. But of course, there are good and bad eggs amongst the rich.

It may be quite impossible for equality to strive in society because not everybody will be rich, that's a harsh fact. But we could promote social equality to the highest level possible. The rich shouldn't oppress the poor because the poor don't have money. I have witnessed many incidents where many rich men should have been bought to the books but are still flaunting happily on the streets because they have bribed the police and other law enforcement agencies. There are many numbers of innocent people in prisons today who are suffering from the crime committed by the rich. Why? Because they don't have money to prove their innocence and they were imprisoned so that the rich man could go scotfree.

Perhaps we could all strive to become rich only but also strive to have a good quality of. behavior, to have empathy for our fellow human beings, and to uphold constitutional rights. Social equality can only strive when people have respect for others. Don't oppress the poor because you think they don't have money as you do. We all need each other as no one is all-sufficient. Maybe someday we could all be the same in status and worth in an egalitarian society. If this can be made possible I think we can live a peaceful life void of wars and unnecessary competition.