We have fat “poor”, they had fat kings.
Today’s “poor” don’t have food tasters and/or cupbearers to test their food and drink for poison.
I once visited the Tower of London and viewed the gold items and jewels that are in the possession of the monarch, including crowns used in coronation. Never saw any of that in the hands of our present-day “poor” either. (Then again, I never saw anything of its like.)