You're profoundly full of shit.

For starters, we're talking about America, right? This might be tough for you to understand, but THERE IS NO POVERTY IN AMERICA! It's been eliminated entirely, and if you don't think I'm right, you need to travel the world a bit. I've seen some godawful poverty-stricken third world shitholes, and I have no patience for spoiled brat Americans bitching about their pathetic little lives. In America, "poverty" is when you only own one TV, your car is over 5 years old, and some gubbamint program buys your food and pays your rent.

You also assume equality as the basis for capitalism, which is absurd on it's face, and your solution is to spread the misery equally. You've taken parents out of the equation entirely, it's like you're using an extreme form of individualism that doesn't even take family relationships into account. If a child is pissed off about being "poor"(see above), they should direct that anger at their parents for being lazy, or making bad decisions with their money.