Poverty Trap

I read an article about 'Pensioner Poverty' and why it is unacceptable, and it most certainly is, just as all poverty is, but it will never change because the world is all about greed.
Greed fuels most things, it makes landlords charge £200 per week for a box room with no garden and a shared toilet because desperate people have nowhere else to live and councils pay it because they have no social housing to accomodate them, and this is a result of greed, as most social housing was sold to create a profit. Lovely for those who benefitted and now own a home for their families, but most people wanted to sell on their cheaply bought homes for a quick profit.
We can't blame people, wages are awful in most jobs and the only way to aspire to riches is to make a quick profit or become famous, and as most people who have a talent work hard and do not become famous, talentless people have to resort to 'celebrity' to make their living, as hard graft doesn't leave you with as much money as being photographed with a famous sportsperson as your partner, neither does it pay as well as being pretty, have you ever known a nurse to earn as much as a model?
Have you noticed how when purchasing most items, if you can pay cash up front, even for essentials, you will get a heavily discounted price, and if you are very rich/famous you sometimes get your goods for free, the people who cannot afford things always pay more, and as interest piles up on credit terms less well off people have to submit to, there is very little chance of anybody saving enough to be considered 'well off'.
Some astute people may have had property which they sold in the 80s and made enough to buy another place without a mortgage and their hard work struggling to pay the mortgage at first was rewarded, but even then gazumping helped to force prices up to an unrealistic level and this had to collapse, so then deperate people trying to sell, stuck in negative equity traps were left in more finacial dire straits, and people who had money could fly down and make more, by offering less and less, because they knew people would sell.
Powers that be demand that people doing their jobs, nurses, teachers, police and everyone really spends so much time on paperwork that they have less time to actually do the thing they want to do, become stressed, take time off through illness and then a replacement has to be found and paid for with ever dwindling funds. Then the threat of redundancy looms over the heads of anybody who is found guilty of being over 40, or having a baby, or not being the bosses favourite, and many more legitimate reasons too; people have their homes repossesed and once self confidence is gone it is very hard for some to find a job that pays a similar wage, and so the downward spiral begins again.
Pensioners and children are the least likely to be in a position to do anything about their situations and so poverty will never be eradicated. The world is designed to keep rich and poor poles apart, and until everybody in it can stop being greedy this is unlikely to change.