To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

Without poverty we can never appreciate prosperity & without prosperity there will be no poverty.

If you allow your mind to wonder towards poverty,poverty then becomes your lot,but if you allow your mind to wonder towards prosperity,prosperity then becomes your lot.

Life's irony;For every person experiencing prosperity in life,there are thousands undergoing poverty tutelage & extreme suffering.

We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty,

Material prosperity brings down someone to moral poverty.