Poverty has a history, and Ben Lewis's animated film traces it from the Neolithic Age onward, asking whether hunter-gatherers even had a concept of poor relations. The animation lets the film move fast and loose through millennia, staging odd juxtapositions along the way, including an imagined Karl Marx making a cup of tea while his ideas about inequality play out on screen. Lewis tracks who fell into poverty fastest at different points in history and what, if anything, has actually lifted people out of it, weighing whether any past solution could work again. The film's real argument sits underneath the jokes: is poverty a deliberate engine driving economic progress, or just the ugly byproduct of inequality nobody designed on purpose? It closes on the present, noting that extreme poverty still exists but that the poverty now shaping rich countries looks different, tied more to widening gaps between rich and poor than to bare survival. The film was produced as part of the Why Poverty documentary series.