The implicit question hidden in the OP is why someone on such a low income doesn’t save the money they spent on rims for more “worthy” things, like savings so they can attempt to claw their way out of the ghetto or something. The position the ghetto resident is in is unquestionably not ideal, but that is a matter of perspective.
OP can I ask if you have an iphone, ipad, laptop? Or some fun but ultimately frivolous and trendy sink of a couple of hundred to thousands of dollars, I bet you do.
Well imagine some billionaire posting here about this upper middle class person he just saw playing with an ipad, why would this person spend so much money on a toy would they could have invested it, or at least put it into savings so they could get out of that dreadful suburb they live in and into a real manor with at least a century or two of provenance?
The answer of course is that you are content where you are and you don’t spend most of your day hating your life and surroundings plotting how to claw your way up, if you blow money on a toy or status symbol its because you can think of no better use for the money(besides should you live your entire life deprived of things you want for the hope of entering a higher economic class? Of course not thats ridiculous.)