Once we accept that culture rather than "stressors" drives behavior (as you've just done), it begs the question of whether poor Americans also have a different

Once we accept that culture rather than "stressors" drives behavior (as you've just done), it begs the question of whether poor Americans also have a different culture with less "family values". So your refutation seems to have failed. I'm also not sure why you even believe it's wrong, given that your post lays the premises for a perfectly valid selection theory leading to poor people having fewer family values. The specific theory: I gather from your posts that you lean towards family values. I lean towards promiscuity. How does this inform our behavior? You have a motive to earn a lot of money and take steady employment (finding and keeping a wife is expensive). I'm pretty happy with the assorted ladies of Pune University and can afford to turn down boring (possibly lucrative) projects. Between the two of us, the rich one has more family values than the poor one. Why would this effect not happen to the population at large?