What you say sounds nice to people who share a certain ideology about capitalism. I'm even (at least sometimes) one of those people. But that won't stop me from

What you say sounds nice to people who share a certain ideology about capitalism. I'm even (at least sometimes) one of those people. But that won't stop me from pointing out your straw-man here: Whoever said that wealth (in the "making things people want and improving the world and getting compensated for it" sense of the word) creates poverty? It's simply not an argument that you hear very often from anyone, yet it is somehow one of the most dangerous in the world? (The argument you do see more often is that the wealthy often apply their (proportionately larger) power at the expense of the poor. But that is far too complicated, even if you disagree with it, do dismiss so tritely, and not at all what you are refuting here.) (( Side thought: It's interesting to wonder if 'poverty' as such even existed prior to the first agricultural revolution. ))