.A leading economic indicator of success is success itself. People who know how to succeed will be better at leading people to wealth than those who know only failure. There are reasons why people fail. Would you put a blind man in charge of an art gallery? Wealthy people have been proven to know how to create wealth.
Same sex marriage. Wrong. First of all. there is a fundamental fallacy in the question. Marriage means a legal union between a man and a woman. So, by definition same sex marriage is a logical inconsistency. if you start with a fallacy you can only end up with a wrong conclusion.