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There are differences other than skin color between the peoples of the world. Bad news for liberals and leftists (people like Jared Diamond and Steven Jay Gould) who wanted to blame luck and circumstance for the differences in quality of life for the world's denizens.

It's true that luck and circumstance are at work - via the genes any given creature (human or otherwise) inherits. The problem with the whole topic, however, is that - at present - it’s a true dismal science (unlike economics, which is neither truly dismal nor a science). There’s not much that can be done about a person’s essential characteristics once he’s born. Calvin was right, but with genes being the mechanism of divinely-ordained determinism.

Some people bring up the Flynn Effect purporting that IQs rise every generation. In fact, some people have claimed that people today with measured IQs of 80-85 are actually more intelligent than people from the 1800s. I think that's a huge pile of bovine manure. If that were true, then the majority of the people of the 1800s, with IQs equivalent to moron level today, would have been unable to house or feed themselves.

In the 1800s, especially the latter half, people from certain parts of the earth were inventing and developing thousands of different devices and applications that would be quite beyond many people of today who would have no clue as to how to use the devices invented more than one hundred years ago.