INTRODUCTION

This analysis intends to expose a possible reason for not eradicating poverty in our world. It claims that the current traditional hegemonic capitalist system fuels poverty in our social fabric and limits us to the philosophical debate on whether we can target a solution for it or not. It considers the ethical problems of uncertainty in the moral value of an action, how we should act towards others in such situations, and why we can't do anything about people going hungry around us. It highlights the contradictions of economic booms and the rise of poverty in small economies closely influenced by foreign affairs and popular international media, suggesting a deliberate intention to create poverty through institutionalized design under the capitalist mode of production.

To support this analysis, I argue that poverty's continued acceptance and failure to eradicate it stem from our unconscious input into Capitalism. Embedded through the hundreds of years of system implementations in our various modes of production (Slavery, Feudalism, and Capitalism), it seems impossible and incomprehensible to banish poverty from our world under the way these systems are unfairly designed to form our social structure. So, in this paper, I argue for principles of moral leadership used as a foundation by proposing the need to readdress the traditional capitalist system and reconstruct its value design using the necessary 'moral codes' for the cosmopolitan allocation of equal opportunity to those who face extreme poverty.  

Considering that the generational phenomenon of institutional assimilation stems from mechanisms operating beneath our human agency, I propose that the empirical concept of poverty is designed and mechanized by our current mode of production. In my analysis, I attempt to address this point by describing it as the mechanism driving our compliance with the system, causing us to lack solutions to issues initially designed for us to accept. To explain this assimilation, I describe four specific concepts that form our ways of life in the current capitalist mode of production. (1) purposive human action (individual human agency); (2) network exchange (human group agency); (3) forms of capital (human value); and (4) standardization (embedded persona). With this breakdown, I propose that the mechanism of institutional assimilation can operate on the three different levels of interaction present in our human social experiences, influencing the individual as a person, a member of a group, and a participant in an institution. 

Moreover, this analysis implies how modes of production shape people's ways of life by addressing the 'invisible power' that drives the design of the capital system, institutionalizing us to not care about the poor. It invokes the Marxian concept of 'pervasive institutionalized power' through ideology, values, and beliefs that reproduce class relations and conceal contradictions. Marx & Engels famously recognized that economic exploitation was not the only driver behind Capitalism. Instead, the system was reinforced by the dominance of ruling-class ideas and values, leading to significant concern that "false consciousness"[1] would keep the working class from recognizing their rejected oppression.

[1] (Marx and Engels 1998)