Your quest to fit the data is admirable; the data available to me suggests that you either have some axe to grind, and are hiding your axe behind the veil of the reasoning process on display, or else you suffer a breathtaking lack of introspection, since every human being alive has experienced a variety of pathological effects, like poor decision making and poor impulse control, as a result of some temporary stressor. You're hungry, you yell at your wife; you get chewed out by your boss, you kick the dog; you get fired and you buy a bottle of vodka and a pepperoni pizza and spread out on the couch.
It takes minimal imagination to extend these common experiences to a world where one is not momentarily hungry, or momentarily stressed, or momentarily taking shit from someone in power, but is rather subject to a constant onsalught of stressors due to poverty or systematic racism, and to imagine the consequences that such circumstances might produce. And yet you're not alone in your failure to do this minimal amount of mental work.
So as an aid to you in explaining the variance in the data, since your own life's experiences have seemingly left you with your current best explanation that a wide swathe of humanity is demonstrably and inherently inferior to the swathe of humanity that is currently winning, this book might serve as a useful meta-analysis covering the relevant issues:
I was responding to this: But not just supply of food, supply of time as well. A poor person is probably working...
Many people have done all sorts of stupid things, me included. For example, a few months back I was moping about a woman in London and not getting any work done, nor was I exercising.
Suppose someone comes along and asks why I'm not getting any exercise. The following is an incorrect reason: "...supply of time...probably working hard..."
The correct reason: I was sleeping until 2PM and hitting up the old monk before 6pm. I was banging a Rwandan pimpstress, a Ukrainian who got turned on by eve teasing and assorted other odd characters. Ganja played a role in this story as well.
None of this is work. It would be wrong to say I didn't exercise because I was working hard. Someone who says "chris wasn't working hard" does not have an axe to grind. They are simply correctly pointing out that enjoying ganja and unhappily married women [1] is not work.
[1] Tip: In India any woman over 26 should be presumed married. Learn from my mistakes.
It takes minimal imagination to extend these common experiences to a world where one is not momentarily hungry, or momentarily stressed, or momentarily taking shit from someone in power, but is rather subject to a constant onsalught of stressors due to poverty or systematic racism, and to imagine the consequences that such circumstances might produce. And yet you're not alone in your failure to do this minimal amount of mental work.
So as an aid to you in explaining the variance in the data, since your own life's experiences have seemingly left you with your current best explanation that a wide swathe of humanity is demonstrably and inherently inferior to the swathe of humanity that is currently winning, this book might serve as a useful meta-analysis covering the relevant issues:
http://us.macmillan.com/scarcity/
References inside.