Spacetime originates or creates poverty through three empirically grounded principles: chronological priority, ontological independence, and necessary-condition analysis. First, poverty emerged within a spatial environment: poverty became possible only once human populations occupied and organized space unevenly. Second, poverty cannot exist without space, whereas space has clearly existed without poverty. This principle is widely recognized across political economy and human geography: space is a physical precondition, while poverty is a later, emergent condition. Third, no poverty preceded or existed without space. Spacetime existed billions of years before the appearance of human societies, economies, or distributive systems. Therefore, because space predates poverty, because poverty depends on spatial organization for its existence, and because space does not depend on poverty, the conclusion follows directly: space literally creates poverty.