Personal Definition of Poverty

It may be pretty straight forward, but my definition of poverty is that there is a fundamental lack of resources to be distributed to meet the demand for them. How much of what there is to go around at any given time must be distributed and when there is not enough (food, money, land) people are left needing resources that are just not there. Its a numbers game, all about how much Y there is for X. Really, this problem can't be avoided in society though because we've seen a drastic move from a community to a society base structure. Community being more family based and generally concerned with group needs and the good of the whole and society involving a much greater number of people and thus having to distribute a smaller pool of resources for a greater number of people without any real concern for the well being of the groups that come up short. Ideally this could be solved with some sort of communist system but if history taught us anything its that that doesn't work and in a capitalist system some not getting as much as others is basically the whole point of the economy. All we can do as a society is try to meet somewhere in the middle where society and the government build a safety net in order to catch the people who fall through the cracks with reserves set aside for that exact purpose.