I've done a fair amount of traveling in my day.Among the places/regions I've visited are East (and southern) Africa,Asia (including India) and South America.In my travels I've seen poverty....
REAL poverty...up close and personal.Poverty including a little African child with a huge belly and little stick legs (classic signs of chronic,severe, malnutrition).And that poverty,I suspect,couldn't be blamed on the people themselves.
Poverty here? Pfftt! There are hundreds of millions (and maybe even billions) of Africans and Asians who would sell their souls to live like our "poor" people live.