After all, call me simplistic, but if poverty is lack of money, the only way to fix it is to give people money. Hoping it will drift down magically from the sky simply isn't working. We won't even go into what business would reckon of it. Of course not. Most people want to feel useful.
Many people have passions and vocations.
Money won't change that, it'll just make things a bit easier. Give people some breathing space. Reduce the stress. Well, I have ideas. A lot is spent on offices, Centrelink, filling out forms, checking forms, cracking down on cheats, consultants and long-term research and report writing about how terrible poverty is.