Many escape velocities out of poverty

People have started brushing up on physics. If you are poor, 11.2-km-a-second (Earth) may be required to break out of the poverty trap. If you are SC/ST, it might require 59.5-km-a-second (Jupiter), and if you are an SC/ST woman, it might require 617.5-km-a-second (the Sun). Accelerating to such escape velocities is easier if an object is first placed in a low Earth orbit. Why don't poor people reach such orbits?

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