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RE: Poverty in the 21 Century?
Your concrete examples of the current problems are good examples of parasitic organizations deforming the productivity curve toward poverty. I believe the benefit to the parasitic organization, besides simple value extraction, is the amplified stability it brings by the greatly diminished ability of people around or below the poverty line to cause change to the system.
Exactly. Keeping people intentionally poor in order to prevent them overthrowing them.
This was the key policy during the middle ages, taxes around that time were pretty low, and you could not justify higher taxes against an angry peasant population.
So the kings sent the peasants to war to diminish their standard of living and give loots to the survivors as a lottery system.
But once the steam engine was invented, capitalism was introduced which overthorw the landlords and gave power to the manufacturing class.
Today we see the once liberating organizations to become our opressors, the large corporations that carry a fascistic spirit, that are the extender arm of a tyrannical government.
We need a new form of social change, where the power goes back to the individual. And I believe the internet and some of the new technologies, like 3D printers, and such will accomplish that.