Only the real world is not a race and there is no prize money. If you own a big factory, you get richer not because God gives you a prize for having a bigger fa

Only the real world is not a race and there is no prize money. If you own a big factory, you get richer not because God gives you a prize for having a bigger factory than everyone else, but because your factory creates wealth, out of nothing. Wealth does tend to perpetuate itself, as in the above example, but this is hardly lamentable. And "poverty perpetuates itself" is basically a bombastic way of saying "lack of wealth doesn't, in and of itself, create more wealth", which is natural and could never be otherwise. Of course, that's if we ignore the psychological component of it. But what can you do about that? Go into people's homes and tell them to stop being such feckless idiots?