That's not how economics works. Everyone pretty much everywhere throughout history has worked, they've worked because if you don't work it eventually means you starve, so people in less wealthy countries didn't just start working since 1990. And yet, since 1990 the number living in extreme poverty globally fell from 2.3 billion to roughly 831 million, the big majority of those in sub-Sahara Africa.

https://ourworldindata.org/end-progress-extreme-poverty

Random citation, I think the situation is actually a little better than they do, but that'll do since they present some data in an easy to read way.

The standard of living went up because productivity and value creation went up significantly. That's the only way that happens.