Let me guess, well, maybe the fact that we're born poor? Poverty is the absence of a lot of things. If you're born in a small isolated tribe in the middle of t

Let me guess, well, maybe the fact that we're born poor? Poverty is the absence of a lot of things. If you're born in a small isolated tribe in the middle of the Amazon, you're poor. Nobody took anything from you, there is almost no inequality, but you're still poor. But I think I know where you're trying to get: "They're only poor because X took whatever from them". Probably where X is capitalism, Western countries, or whoever is the fashionable enemy. Nope.