If you took all the wealth from those that have it, and gave it to those that don’t, within a few years, those that had the wealth, would have it again, and those that got the free money would be back in poverty, again.
Wealth is not static.
With some exceptions, those in poverty today either have made poor decisions in the past (or in the case of children, their parents made the poor decisions).
Money does not solve the poor decision making done by those in poverty. If you need an example look to professional athletes and those that win lotteries. Many squander millions of dollars and in a few years find themselves broke.
The road out of poverty is not easy, but can be taken by anyone willing to work hard, and not make decisions that will destroy your future (such as dropping out of school, using and or selling drugs, committing crimes, having children out of wedlock).
Until the Great Society we did not have a permanent lower class. There are some exception but for the most part people may find themselves in circumstances that they would be listed as being “poor”, but in time they rose out of that category.
I will go so far as saying the Great Society has created more poor people then anything else has.
Money (or lack of money) is not the problem, and so throwing money at it will not solve it.
Until the Great Society we did not have a permanent lower class. There are some exception but for the most part people may find themselves in circumstances that they would be listed as being “poor”, but in time they rose out of that category.
We just have a “Gilded cage slave class” that replaced chains with other people’s fiat money in exchange for keeping the middle class down because the control freaks and elites live by the mantra that competition is a sin....