I think you've misinterpreted what the author meant by a free-floating midset. If I said to you, you'll be more successful if adopt materialism and you go and

I think you've misinterpreted what the author meant by a free-floating midset. If I said to you, you'll be more successful if adopt materialism and you go and do it without relation to your environment as a budist monk, that would be an example of a free-floating mindset. The point the author is trying to raise, is that you can't just tell someone to adapt an entreprenurial go-getter mindset because the environment they're in isn't well suited to that. Effectively, they are saying the poor are well adapted and it's our point of view of the poor which is wrong. To better help people in these situations we need to change tact from the "I'm sucessful, be like me" approach.