This is a delicate thing to say, but having lived in Nepal surely the most impoverished country. I've been in for any length of time now for 2 months. I realize that knowledge that poverty is a knowledge problem fundamentally it's what we call information asymmetry those who are disadvantaged and are impoverished don't have the knowledge they need to improve their situation. And yes, I know there are all kinds of issues with systematic discrimination, but at the end of the day someone who is impoverished has their best resource in their own faculties and their own ability + assuming society's not going to help then what else does someone to do but help themselves when they don't have the knowledge or the information to do that, then they make substandard decisions or suboptimal decisions. And furthermore, the worst decisions of it in poverty can make is thinking that the only way out of poverty is money and that is such a dead end. And furthermore, when I get taken advantage of for generosity by someone who claims they want food and obviously has other intentions when suddenly helping somebody with food ends up being a $20 bag of 50 lb rice. Something's up there and there's this sort of tragedy of the Commons where that ruins it for the next person because I'll be damned if I'm going to get approached for a 50 lb bag of rice when you know 100 rupees actually can buy something so I understand the individual motivation but that's really a knowledge problem now and not for me for them... Hearing somebody tell me essentially verbatim that they have a big plot of land out in the country and probably overspent and became house. Poor building house on it, but they don't want to sell the house or the land because somehow that is wrapped up in their self-worth but are banking on the streets. That's a huge knowledge problem that's and that's not a judgment call. That's just a matter of fact it's a knowledge problem. It's it's. It's asymmetric information that that person does not know how to optimize their situation. Bottom line