Unfortunately, there's another problem that people can't understand. Many people believe that the state should provide a beautiful, nourished and rich life for a person. But this shows that people do not understand how the state works.
Let's take the simplest question - where does the state get money to provide a minimum acceptable standard of living for socially unprotected citizens?
1. from taxes?
2. Will it print money?
3. Borrow money from another country ?
The correct answer is item 1.
A lot of countries are endowed with natural resources which the government should use to take care of the citizens, and I have seen some countries that uses oil and gas as their major means of getting funds for the country. Suadi Arabia, Qatar are oil producing countries and that is what they live on. However, when your government is careless and self centered i.e they don't take care of their citizens, the citizens should also look for a means to take care of themselves by learning skills and also look for a means of survival rather than waiting for the government and lamenting. It used to be before that government provides job for its citizens but right now in my country it is the opposite. Citizens provides job for themselves so that they can become independent. Let's not put all the blame on the government but also help ourselves out from poverty and hardship.
If we talk about resources, there are many examples in the modern world that say:
- you have resources, you have a reasonable government, your population lives well (for example, the UAE)
- you have resources, you have a corrupt/stupid/kleptomaniac government, people live unhappy (for example Russia)
- you have no resources, you have a reasonable government, you have a high-quality economy, your population lives well (for example, Singapore)
- you have no resources, you have a corrupt/stupid/kleptomaniac government, people live miserable (for example North Korea)
So I will say - the presence or absence of resources is not an indicator of the quality of life of the population.
But it is the work of the government, the state system that is an indicator of how citizens will live and what they will do - create and enjoy a quality life, or survive and suffer.