And why dems okay not addressing it or letting what limited help they do expire

Perhaps that is true. But the system capitalism thrives on created poverty. Thus, cause and effect become indistinguishable.

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=walmart+welfare+workers

Regional effects may be to blame, like famine of old, for sure. But in the modern world, capitalism blocks attempts to end poverty, by all means possible: wage suppression, lobbying against health care reform, and against consumer advocacy, and against unions, just to name a tiny fraction.

Billionaires can't exist without poverty. Buying power demands this. Consumers only spend so much, can only spend what they earn.

Profit comes only from the spending power of the masses, as a general rule. To take a greater share, someone has to take a lesser share.

Fantasies abound of a financial world where this rule does not apply, yet all but a smidgeon of finance rests on commodities, utilities, rent, and consumer spending, sitting at the bottom of the pyramid of cards, or maybe just a scheme.

More markets? More growth. Sure, let's see that end poverty. The end of poverty is to lessen the share of the rich. It is just common sense.

Yeah, your right, there is no reason for capitalism to create poverty except to reduce upwards pressure on wages. Also, it's a good thing that some people are billionaires. Clearly, the billionaires deserve to be billionaires and the people in poverty deserve to be in poverty. /S

capitalism doesnt create poverty.

How? It's entire design is to extract all the wealth from the bottom to funnel to the top? Especially in our current system where the only thing that matters is short term profits and continuous growth.

Hell monopoly was created to show how terrible the system was by making the point driving everyone else into bankruptcy

Oh Tyrannitar of the burning trashpile horizon. What other wisdom do you dispense?

Government is the legislative arm of capitalism. Capitalism is designed to concentrate wealth at the top at the expense of the working class.

No. Capitalism punishes socialism systems (communism never existet) so poverty can rise even in them.

The main problem of humankind is capitalism.

Under capitalism you get the product that will generate most money for the shareholders, while disregarding all else. Not the product that you want or need, sometimes you even get the exact opposite and are confident that you want it more than all else, and gladely will pay money for said uneeded unwanted proudct, cause they took away your ability to think clear. Enjoy these last few years while it all crumbles down.

Capitalism creates nothing except the need for constant consumption, labor creates everything. We can live without capitalism, capitalism can not survive without us.