Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over

[Progressive dog]

44. Since 1964, wow only 49 years, 2% a year

Let's put this in perspective, almost certainly less than $1,000 per year per person. Somewhere near 2.5% of GDP. That is SO generous and SO likely to make a difference.
Sixteen percent (about 50,000,000 people) of Americans are living in poverty. This is after these "huge" expenditures.

You said
"The problem with poverty is, it's a sliding scale -- the definition of what we call poverty has been changing ever since the Neolithic Era. You cannot solve a problem that is continuously being redefined."

OK, so you would like poverty to retain some original definition. We wouldn't have to go back very far to get rid of modern medicine and hospitals. Modern transportation, sanitation, and clean drinking water could follow. Then we could get rid of electricity for those damn poor people.

Save us a lot of that awful cost, wouldn't it?