The Strong Get Stronger: Why Success Attracts More Help

Humans are creatures that pursue efficiency. If you have a lot, you get even more; if you have little, even the last bit will be taken away from you.

If a person’s car lacks an engine, people will reason that since they can’t drive it anyway, it might as well have its tires removed and given to those who can use them as spares.
It’s cruel, but it happens often in reality because it’s the most efficient approach, and strictly speaking, it amounts to improving resource utilization—even though it’s hard for the person without an engine to accept.