system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is poverty a necessary aspect of capitalism?
gpt
No it is not.

A natural outgrowth of capitalism is income inequality, but poverty is not a requirement.  It is theoretically possible for a capitalist system to reach a level where the lowest of the low are not in poverty but merely at the bottom of the scale.  

Of course all that theoretical stuff is not super useful in the real world, hence why pure (anything) is generally not a good idea.