This is availability bias. There are clearly other factors differentiating Somalia and the US. If there weren’t, there would be massive starvation in Somalia because you can’t get by on $145 a year in the US.
There is, in fact, massive starvation in Somalia, price differences notwithstanding. The first sentence of the first link from a Google search for “malnutrition statistics somalia” says that “Somalia has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world”.
Malnutrition and Starvation are different things. It’s much better to be malnourished than to starve. And it’s much harder to feed people the optimal food than to just feed them some food...
But you’re missing the point. There are successful people in Somalia, if you manage to not be malnourished in Somalia then you are successful (unless you value eating bad food for religious reasons...).
There is, in fact, massive starvation in Somalia, price differences notwithstanding. The first sentence of the first link from a Google search for “malnutrition statistics somalia” says that “Somalia has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world”.
Malnutrition and Starvation are different things. It’s much better to be malnourished than to starve. And it’s much harder to feed people the optimal food than to just feed them some food...
But you’re missing the point. There are successful people in Somalia, if you manage to not be malnourished in Somalia then you are successful (unless you value eating bad food for religious reasons...).