Poverty exists because of government policy.

It goes back to the industrial revolution.

The capitalists needed workers for their factories but the commoners didn't want to leave the land and work in factories because the land already provided everything they needed.

So governments privatised the commons and removed the people from the land forcing them into urban areas to work in factories.

Poverty is simply the seperation of man from the land.

It takes only one generation for people to become self reliant and lift themselves out of poverty. BUT ONLY IF THE GOVERNMENT ALLOWS THEM TO.

As long as governments are controlled by capitalists and actively working to keep people in poverty they will remain in poverty.