How Difficult is It to Tackle Poverty?

I've arrived at the conclusion that the reason why it is so difficult to understand the works of economists and sociologists towards expressing their understanding of the reasons for underdevelopment and their suggestions on how to promote a way out from poverty and famine for modern society is simply that most economists and sociologists also don't understand the dynamics of real social development.

In my view, overcoming the interests of a few greedy groups and demolishing consumerism/materialism as a social paradigm are the REAL problem behind underdevelopment. Figuring out how to tackle these without stepping on the toes of the rich & powerful is the dilemma that prevents practical solutions. After all, western societies' power matrix is currently founded on renewed consumption of goods.

No modern tycoon and no modern government is willing to forgo financial power to save global society (or the environment) without at least the promise of an immediate alternative profit margin.

As Sir Winston Churchil once eloquently put: "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”