ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the solution to poverty. Rather than end the book with the obvious answers to fixing the problem, this chapter attempts to show that simply giving people more money can help not only with poverty but also with issues entangled with and beyond poverty. The chapter then tries to explain why we have not implemented this solution, explains the common arguments against it, and sets the stage for the rest of the book. That setting includes a discussion of the contexts of this book – Australian metropolitan poverty before COVID-19 – as well as some reflexive notes on what the research and book do, and who the author is. The chapter ends by moving into the first big question: ‘what is poverty?’ which is discussed in Chapter 2.
