We've known for a long time how to fight not only poverty, but hunger, homelessness, wealth inequality, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and, a host of other issues -- even pandemics. There is just no political will to do the things necessary to save us from ourselves.
Part of the problem is that among the social issues you listed: poverty, hunger, homelessness, wealth inequality...to a large portion of the population theses are not bugs. These are features of not working hard enough. Incentives to join the workforce and do Bullshit Jobs [0]
