First of all, Bitcoin was not invented to alleviate poverty and its a wrong notion even just to assume it! @ OP, would you be kind enough to further clarify your point? I mean maybe you could provide us relevant  links with regards to your topic especially when you mentioned "Manna" which I believe is a Biblical term. I hope you could expound more on this topic at hand.

Everyone is free to view btc the way they want to view it, if for any reason someone sees btc as a means of alleviating their financial needs then I don't see why not after all if btc didn't serve that purpose they won't see it as that, same thing with the person who use btc for it's tech can see it that way because the tech part serve him, btc is multipurpose.

Poverty is about how to manage money, not money itself, so the comparison seems illogical. "It's like the relationship between the length of the road and the depth of the sea."
Correcting that phrase would be: if Bitcoin is used properly, we will get rid of poverty.
General headlines are often used for propaganda and media amplification, linking BTC to poverty, hunger, drugs, etc. are propaganda, not real debates.

If he meant that, with its current design, Bitcoin can handle only 5 transactions per second. that might be enough at the inter-bank level, but is certainly not enough for everyone to transact directly in bitcoin. secondly, there are the huge fees. Bitcoin is a really expensive way to pay for things, especially low value items.  

Thirdly, Bitcoin isn't remotely functional as a currency and P2P payment method; primarily because of the volatility in its value. This volatility means that if bitcoin is rising, no one in their right mind would pay for things using bitcoin, because if they wait their bitcoin will be worth more. Meanwhile when bitcoin is falling no one in their right mind would accept bitcoin as payment. hence bitcoin is not being marketed as a form of payment. it is marketed as an asset whereas a portion of that asset can be sent anywhere fast and at a low cost.

While satoshi designed bitcoin to be a peer to peer transfer of cash (payments), now it comes to a point that it became a store of value. Even it became like that, there's no way bitcoin going to get rid of poverty. Poverty is a choice and bitcoin can't be used to end it, you will end of in a very huge debt if you choose to have bitcoin while you don't understand what its purpose, how to use it, etc.

It was really never intended to solve poverty. Satoshi isn't a government to worry solve that problem.
Actually Satoshi achieved his goal in making it a peer-to-peer transaction. And I don't know who claimed it to be a solution for poverty? But let's not close the fact that bitcoin also helped us financially, but not to the point that its main function is to solve poverty.

LOL, who said that Bitcoin is the answer for poverty. And for those people who are "dreaming" that it's the solution, then they are in the wrong market. I can't believed people around claiming that bitcoin or crypto for that matter is the solution? Maybe they are blinded because they think it's a get rich scheme, but it's not. Earning Bitcoin needs hard work as well and you really need to be smart in order for you to make a lot of money.

I think bitcoin is only a way for people who want to make money from a new source. Bitcoin is like a knife, how we will use bitcoin for our life. If we know what we can do with bitcoin, bitcoin will help us to make money in the short term and long term.

Bitcoin cannot get rid of poverty if people don't want to try to change their life and only to expect to make money from bitcoin without doing anything. That will be only a dream for people who think like that because they will not earn anything from other people. So if you want to change your life with bitcoin, you need to be ready for the consequences and the risk inside bitcoin itself.

Just to add to your post, there are many people who are not smart and still they make a lot of money from inheritance or lottery, etc. However most of them go bankrupt just because they are not smart with their finances and don't have financial education.