"The best and the brightest will stay poor unless they stumble on a resource which is not taken. (A new internet business idea for example)." Where does this d

"The best and the brightest will stay poor unless they stumble on a resource which is not taken. (A new internet business idea for example)." Where does this data include for the fact that resources have been forcefully extracted from certain people groups for centuries? Need not look further than look at Central and South America, and the entire sub-Saharan African continent. (Also of course, several areas in Asia) it is no surprise then, that the wealthiest nations and societies are those who extracted the resources (in this case ranging from gold, diamonds, oil, rubber, ivory, even crops such as fruit, coffee beans, and cocoa beans) by means of blatant corruption, deceit, and thievery. Secondly, many have remarked on this site that ideas in and of themselves don't have much value -- it is the execution on the idea that makes it powerful. That being re-hashed constantly on this site, how then does a new internet idea count as a resource? Without the ability, or the actual resources to execute on the idea then there is absolutely no value of that idea to the person. (say, if a poor person has little or no access to a computer or the internet, it seems a bit ludicrous a new internet business idea is a resource) "First generation agent might have stumbled on a resource nearby by accident. It has improved its fitness function and he was able to successfully compete on the next round." Not by accident, but by intent.