Poverty Inc., traces the history of capitalism, examines corporate globalization, exposes a failed economic system and focuses on America's descent into third world status driven by the new amoral predatory power elite

Should the western world decide the fate of other countries? Are we just so blind to other cultures and ways of living that we can't imagine any other way? The term WELFARE is way too common in our thinking. This film displays the 'law of unintended consequences' all too well, and seeks to show people those unintended effects from the western way of providing aid to poverty stricken areas of the world.—pecan111