Life expectancy of a child born in [1][2]: Baltimore, MD: 72 Greenwich, CT: 89 Djamena, Chad: 53 I cannot argue that the children born in those three places

Life expectancy of a child born in [1][2]: Baltimore, MD: 72 Greenwich, CT: 89 Djamena, Chad: 53 I cannot argue that the children born in those three places have the same potential, everything else being equal. Even children born in the same place, the biggest predictor of "success" in the USA is not ability but wealth of parents [3]. Can we escape the geography and parental endowments of our birth to maximize our potential? Yes, that is the exception not the norm. On a good day, I would argue that escaping the constraints of our birth and maximizing our potential is the goal of civilization. But not today ;) [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... [2] https://qz.com/1462111/map-what-story-does-your-neighborhoods-life-expectancy-tell/ https://qz.com/1462111/map-what-story-does-your-neighborhood... [3] https://www.wnpr.org/post/georgetown-study-wealth-not-ability-biggest-predictor-future-success https://www.wnpr.org/post/georgetown-study-wealth-not-abilit...