"Capitalism has been so enormously successful at producing widespread material abundance that we today regard wealth as innate to our existence, as our default mode. It is not. Wealth doesn't just happen. Wealth must be created; therefore, wealth has causes. Poverty has no causes. Poverty is humankind’s default mode. It’s what exists if we do nothing. “Creating” poverty -- causing poverty -- is no challenge whatsoever."
-Don Boudreaux