Capitalism has failed

Marshmallow "Delayed Reward" Experiment replication
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618761661
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218250

reference for original test;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment
tl;dr pocket-protected autists in labcoats with a budget for a few pounds of marshmallows tried a """psychological""" test("Can a child resist eating a marshmallow for future reward") only to discover rich kids steamroll it. Their conclusion: Capitalism is unfair, straight outta childs mouth.

This test is horribly flawed from several points:

1.Use something more universally liked, like potato chips or some popular snack, but not something common brand they eat all day.
A lot of kids don't like marshmallows(I was disgusted with one when i first tasted it).
Rich kids probably never eat such cheap junk.

2.Use a pack of it and check if it was opened. A single marshmallow is worth the wait for reward.
A rich kid wouldn't care about some single marshmallow. But a tempting pack of some rare snack will work.

3.More time for wait:30m at least so they get hungry. Kids are not all impatient as it seems, in my time i could wait hours for opportunity to get something for free.

4.Make the reward non-food item: like
a cute plush toy or something kids like, like a cool fidget spinner.
Making the reward to seem like another portion of the same distorts motivation.

Some people are better than other people, and by golly that sure is unfair.

>>2
Maybe, but obviously the implication of OP is that the character of a person is strongly influenced by the environment they are raised in.

>>3
OP was nitpicking methodology and making a wild extrapolation.

>>4
The OP stated that the test was horribly flawed. Pointing out horrible flaws is hardly nitpicking, you can question how horrible or even real these flaws are in practice, but not the legitimacy of pointing out what you perceive as horrible flaws. As for "wild" extrapolation, I don't see it. What I do see,however, is that OP's linked Wikipedia article makes him look like a fool if you read it. Not only were the rewards often pretzels, pizza, and other non-marshmallow treats, the study's own author states "Comparison of the 'high' versus 'low' socioeconomic groups on the experimental choice did not yield a significant difference".

Mischel reported a significant ethnic difference, with Indian children showing far more ability to delay gratification as compared to African students, as well as large age differences, and that "Comparison of the 'high' versus 'low' socioeconomic groups on the experimental choice did not yield a significant difference".[6] Absence of the father was prevalent in the African-descent group but occurred only once in the East Indian group, and this variable showed the strongest link to delay of gratification, with children from intact families showing superior ability to delay.

It looks like nigs failed to measure up, again.