"It makes me smile to see articles about 'below the poverty line' here in UK. Nobody is poor here."

I'm reminded of what Bob Dylan once wrote:

"A South politician preaches to the poor white man
"You got more than the blacks, don't complain."

Total destitution is, thank God, relatively rare in the UK these days (It wasn't always so, even within living memory.) Poverty, in which families are effectively excluded from society and from any real hope of changing their situation for the better, is sadly not uncommon.

And it's getting worse, not better. And the forces which are making it it worse are the same as the forces that help ensure total destitution in other parts of the world.