>If you're born into poverty, you can have all the time in the world, but you'll find it extremely hard to get proper education before you even get a chance to

>If you're born into poverty, you can have all the time in the world, but you'll find it extremely hard to get proper education before you even get a chance to put some time into it. Your hypothetical setup is strange. If you have all the time in the world - you can do anything. >In other words, to even get a chance to commit time to something like mathematics at the level we're talking about, there are hard practical social and economic preconditions which have nothing to do with one's abilities, or even the field of endeavor as such. Like what preconditions exactly?