Please watch Beth's video, it's very good. Most governments aren't super focused on addressing poverty, in part because some don't consider it fair to directly

Please watch Beth's video, it's very good. Most governments aren't super focused on addressing poverty, in part because some don't consider it fair to directly lift people out of poverty, there is a taboo against giving, or because it's not in the common conscience that we should eradicate poverty as soon as we can. Some countries for example in Western Europe or elsewhere do have almost eliminated poverty, but it still persists in often much more grave conditions elsewhere. The good news is there are several organizations (I give to GiveDirectly, but there are probably others) that track the most poor and needy people worldwide and you can just give them money to get out of poverty. There are many other effective interventions that address poverty, and Effective Altruism[2] is one of the movements looking at attacking them directly (although I'm not a fundamental opponent to governments doing so as well; the problem is that governments act very locally and at least in the west are more focused on education, infrastructure, etc. than charity) [1] https://www.givedirectly.org/ https://www.givedirectly.org/ [2] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ https://www.effectivealtruism.org/