Milton Friedman

True though. A dollar in america can buy a lawnmower in India. The world is so unequal, but you can't really manage it to give people equal things.

"The world is so unequal because people behave differently."
That sounds like somebody awfully entitled. Have you read Guns, Germs, and Steel? Are you implying that India, for example, is poor and unsuccessful. America does a comparatively amazing job on making success merit based through schooling, but understand that the reason we are successful is by no means because we, as a people, are smarter than the Papa New Guineans.

Reread my comment. India is poor and unsuccessful. But not because the people behave differently. Indians in America are rich and successful.

Most. On average more successful. It was an example. So, you are saying that the reason first world is first world is because of greater work ethic? Smarter? Not really. It builds up. We have an education so we are smarter. Why do we have the education. I would really at least watch a video on Guns Germs and Steel. It is also a broad generalization to say that America is more successful because we behave differently

So if you aren't saying it is because we are smarter or have a higher work ethic what do you say we are the world's super power? And our public school system does make us more adept at succeeding in the modern world.

When I went looking at some older threads, I saw this comment, so I decided to clear some things up. Every single economy in the world is linked with that nations culture because better cultures encourage better actions. Something like Laissez-faire economics do well if done in a state of healthy culture in a place like Europe or the US, but will do bad in a place like say Somalia because it's a societal norm there to kill homosexuals, perform genital mutilation, and other things that hurt society when that society is directly linked with it's economy.