Not necessarily, as in the case of a guy who has 800.000 dollars being inequal to another guy with 100.000.000 dollars. edit: I mean, the cause of poverty is n

Not necessarily, as in the case of a guy who has 800.000 dollars being inequal to another guy with 100.000.000 dollars. edit: I mean, the cause of poverty is not that some people are rich, because if world trends of poverty are decreasing while the rich are getting richer, there isn't a correlation. Of course if some rich people get their riches by corruption or some other harmful activity, yes, that may cause poverty. But I would not say that the existence of rich people in general is the cause of poverty. That would imply thinking about wealth as a fixed size cake, where some have to lose for others to win. But it may be that it's rather like increasing the amount of cakes. Nobody loses if we have more cakes.