Will a socirty's economy always create poverty?

[donttread]

For example what is considered poverty in America today would not have called poverty in another time or place. Many of our poor have food, shelter, clothing and transportation readily available. So we now consider "poor" to mean what? No X-Box? No cell phone? Walmart fashion?
Further when we artificially provide people's basic needs ( not necessarily against that BTW) do we simply create a new kind of "poverty?"
Will rent, food and clothing then simply adjust so that only the fully employed can afford them without assistance? Do we ensure state dependence the minute we assume that anything beyond the basics is a "need?"

[Stoney]

There will always be a bottom to the economic spectrum just as there will always be a top to. And those at the bottom who can will strive to further their situation to the extend they are motivated to.

[Chris]

It's a relative term.

Dontread explicates Kennedy's "A rising tide lifts all boats."

[Peter1469]

Harness the power of the sun and there will be no more poverty.

[darroll]

If you don't want to be poor, jump up and join the rat race.

[Mainecoons]

Harness the power of the sun and there will be no more poverty.

Except at night time or on cloudy days.

[donttread]

Harness the power of the sun and there will be no more poverty.

There might not be any starvation if we harvested the power of the sun locally. But at what point does not having separate bedrooms for each child = "poverty"

[The Sage of Main Street]

For example what is considered poverty in America today would not have called poverty in another time or place. Many of our poor have food, shelter, clothing and transportation readily available. So we now consider "poor" to mean what? No X-Box? No cell phone? Walmart fashion?
Further when we artificially provide people's basic needs ( not necessarily against that BTW) do we simply create a new kind of "poverty?"
Will rent, food and clothing then simply adjust so that only the fully employed can afford them without assistance? Do we ensure state dependence the minute we assume that anything beyond the basics is a "need?"

Only slavish people with no self-respect compare themselves downward. Who cares if Italians pay $8 a gallon for gas? We should instead demand that we only pay what the least price-gouged countries pay.

[The Sage of Main Street]

And those at the bottom who can will strive to further their situation to the extent they are motivated to.

By the slavish, brown-nosing, and self-destructive rules set by the privileges parasites at the top?

[The Sage of Main Street]

If you don't want to be poor, jump up and join the rat race.

And if you are a rat, you will win that race.