I think it all depends upon how you define 'poverty', and of course how the 'poverty' goalposts were moved around over the past 50 years.
I go to see people in so-called (British) 'poverty' every day of the week, and have been doing so since 1977.
Many of them have made bad decisions in life, or are just idle and feckless.
There are few for whom I feel sorry.
Disabled people (through no fault of their own), SOME pensioners.
The rest live in a society where life is pretty easy and opportunities abound, and that has been the case for a very long time, so what is their excuse ?
Should we take 'poor' children away from their idiot parents ?
Should we stop certain people from breeding ?
