When people don't have to grovel to survive, they can develop their consciousness. Poverty is the medium in which hatred and cold-blooded oppression thrives. But it is not constrained to economic poverty. Spiritual poverty among society's powerful is starkly apparent. Governments tacitly permit genocide in Mexico, Algeria, Africa, Palestine, Russia, China - the list goes on and on.
Corporate kingpins exploit people, the environment, and whole societies.
Their hearts must be in dire poverty, to the point that some aren't even aware of it. They encourage the disorder that engenders cold-bloodedness. Curing society is an individual responsibility. Every increment of progress is of benefit. If everyone would mend someone, then would all be mended.