> Giving money to the poor merely elevates those who received the money over a new generation of "poor" and does nothing to actually stop the systems that creat

> Giving money to the poor merely elevates those who received the money over a new generation of "poor" and does nothing to actually stop the systems that create poverty in the first place. If "the system" is giving people money to raise them out of poverty, how can it simultaneously be a "system that creates poverty?" Your logic implies that there is enough work to go around, and that's increasingly seeming to be not the case - if there's not enough good paying work, that's not anyone's fault.