I feel like “poverty” is a state of being, and just a fancy description for the modern day slave class.
The argument over wages has been going on for years, and during that time prices (and global conflict) have severely increased while the right (which, if you look closely, are a bunch of privileged people worldwide who believe that privilege is their god given right) has grown increasingly anti-establishment.
The slave class protests and is beat into submission, while the privileged do as they please without consequence (see: worldwide insurrection, hyper capitalism, predatory business policy & little ethics).
Growing up as a foreigner in the US, the biggest tool I’ve noticed is using race & ethnic background to divide the population further. Most of us fall in the same class, and most people have no qualms with each other when given the actual capacity to form bonds, yet they’re purposefully denying that mindset from forming – Just to create overwhelmed, overworked, and overstimulated individuals who feel lonely, but cannot understand why.
TLDR – Poverty is just modern slavery. Since we’ve been so pacified, what exactly is the plan (since asking nicely, non so nicely, and with with signs hasn’t helped)? We’re fighting so many different social battles while everything is clearly getting worse, all the while fooling ourselves into believing that eventually things will get better.