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Yes, poverty is playable

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"Poverty" Definition

noun

Deficiency in amount; scantiness: "the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul” ( Scott Turow).
Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.
The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
Unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil.
The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.

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