You can both be right: A fast lifestyle (1) is caused by expecting poverty and (2) causes poverty; but I think that Unseelie's (and the article's) point is the

You can both be right: A fast lifestyle (1) is caused by expecting poverty and (2) causes poverty; but I think that Unseelie's (and the article's) point is the more significant one. In order to fight poverty, you have to give people a reason to change their expectations, without which it would be impossible to change their behavior.