Your view is a popular one, but you fail to understand that the driving force behind poverty is not merely lack of capital. Rather, it's broken social structure

Your view is a popular one, but you fail to understand that the driving force behind poverty is not merely lack of capital. Rather, it's broken social structures. In a dysfunctional nation, there are sinister actors. If you give a poor farmer a tractor, then that raises more taxes for the corrupt government, which will spend the money on perpetuating corruption, and then they collapse, and then there's a power vacuum, and then a civil war, and it just keeps going There have always been groups that want to solve poverty. People who have experienced poverty and people who live in poverty want to solve poverty. Yet poverty continues, because it's not a problem anyone knows how to solve