How are some countries so much more developed than others around the world?

Question

This seems so obvious and rude, frankly, but I don’t understand how I am able to sit in my apartment with my own food to make and job to go to when some men, women, and children are living in extreme poverty with no clean drinking water. How did this start and how did it continue to cycle to where we are now?

In: Economics

Answer 1

All European and East Asian countries without a history of communism are developed. Capitalism plus high-IQ genes equals wealth.

Correlation between genes and IQ:

[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlation-between-EDU-PGS-gnomAD-and-population-IQ_fig5_332076417](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlation-between-EDU-PGS-gnomAD-and-population-IQ_fig5_332076417)