Successful people measuring success: An irony or Consummation?

The following blog attempts to think about the lives of people who cannot make it even when a country is riding a wave of success and better living. The example being used as the artifact is a lower middle class family in India which can exploit the ongoing globalization/technology wave sweeping the country. The family is teetering on the edge of the poverty line because the their living through supply of products to small vendors is washed by the arrival of supermarkets. More info can be found here. While the technology crowd can afford the negative effects of inflation, other struggle to make ends meet.

Some people have questioned why the family did not invest their children's time in education and that those people have to blame themselves for their state now. This brings us to the bigger question, " While most people get lucky with the positive wave, purely because of sheer dumb luck and not because they brought about the change, they get successful and start questioning others; Is letting such successful people measure success a good idea or a moronic idea?" While I understand that history is written by winners, I think it is better that successful people think about ways of improving society rather than giving amateurish advice.

The Song of the Indian maid: Keats it is!

To Sorrow
I bade good morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind:
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But ah! she is so constant and so kind.