Poverty isn't a man made problem. It's the default state of nature, which was true for most humans in the history of our species. We can't solve it overnight. I

Poverty isn't a man made problem. It's the default state of nature, which was true for most humans in the history of our species. We can't solve it overnight. It takes decades of gradually increasing a society's wealth from subsistence farming to full industrialization. It's definitely possible to do it more quickly than we did in the Western world (~200 years), as evidenced by the progress that China and India have made toward eliminating extreme poverty in the last 20 years. But it's naive to think that we can just snap our fingers and solve poverty for the rest of the world. In the mean time, it totally makes sense to try and alleviate the suffering of people in poverty in whatever ways we can.