The 'poor' are poor because they lack certain talents, they suffer in poverty because they are unable to create riches for themselves. This situation is exacerbated by restrictive legislation which complicates free access to markets and rewards non-productive behavior and by government bureacracies which promulgate lies and propaganda to expand their authority. Governments create poverty and keep people impoverished through regulations which restrict the economic liberties of individuals. Businesses, the rich, or any private individual has no capacity whatsoever to impoverish anyone or restrict the actions of anyone without the cooperation of governments. Government bureaucracies are less responsive and more repressive than private bureaucracies.
Governments use police and military forces to enforce their desires.
Businesses and individuals use persuasion in a free marketplace to realize their desires. All people have the capacity to survive in a free and open society despite the lies of government to the contrary. All have the intelligence, the drive, the creativity to survive and prosper if given the opportunity to do so. What people lack most is the freedom to act on their own without government approval. We will settle the solar system.