The chief cause of poverty has always been governments’ reliance on initiatory force. The ONLY valid reason for any government’s use of force is to protect its own people from initiatory force. Eliminating all use of initiatory force, fraud and coercion would make the people wealthy. However, the rule of self-serving man cannot eliminate governmental use of initiatory force. The Prime Law does provide the means to eliminate initiatory force, fraud and coercion under any government that adopts it.