Poverty is around us.
what need to lower poverty is exactly the job, business, industry, and many more chances to work and earn money.
i don't think it is absolutely because of the old currency or fiat. but I also cannot avoid that bank and fiat system may also sometimes make poverty worse.
the existence of the crypto world is actually one of the solutions to rise up the life and lower the poverty as long as we understand how to do it exactly.
however, poverty will never end. the way is we can just decrease, but to erase poverty, it seems too difficult even done from country to country by each government.
The problem is that we are currently faced with a difficult time where the work and business that are run are not going well and even now we are faced with a lot of unemployed people who have lost their jobs because of the effects of the virus which is still rampant, so they cannot carry out their jobs and can't earn money this way at this time.
Regarding Fiat and banks, this is actually still very difficult because it is certain that there will be a lot of people arguing about whether their way is good or not in doing their job.
but I quite agree with what you said that poverty will always exist and will be very difficult to eradicate because even if there are people who will help eradicate it like when Elon said he would donate some of his assets to eradicate poverty but in fact this will still be very difficult to realize and poverty will certainly always exist forever