The wealth ledger.

Extreme poverty prices out at $70.0B/yr in current spend and a $500.0B in-limit prize for whoever builds the winning delivery platform — both figures on the extreme poverty problem page. Set that next to this ledger: Elon Musk’s personal net worth alone ($839.0B) already dwarfs the entire current annual market, and even the smallest economy in this top 18 ($1.2T GDP) clears it many times over. The demand is real and enormous — 700 million people, the single highest-demand population this site tracks — but by definition none of them are the payer.

That’s not a reason to drop the problem. It’s a reason to name the real go-to-market target correctly. A company here doesn’t sell to a poor household; it sells to one of three entities on this page — and the existing starter kits for graduation-approach cost collapse and anticipatory cash infrastructure already implicitly do this (BRAC, World Bank, WFP, government aid budgets as the buyer). This page just makes the pattern explicit and repeatable for every other welfare-tier problem on the board.