Comparing two villages, Arjun says the village where the most people work in farming will be the…

Why

Arjun's link between working hard and being rich is a fair instinct — effort does matter, and a village of idle people certainly won't prosper. What decides real wealth, though, is not just HOW MANY people work but how much VALUE each person's work actually creates and earns. Farming with old tools and small, rain-dependent plots can employ a huge number of people while each one earns very little, because the total harvest is spread thin across so many hands. A smaller number of people running a dairy cooperative or a small factory can sometimes create far more total value with fewer workers, because machines, better tools, or organised selling raise what each worker's effort is worth. Test: many countries in the world's history had almost their whole population farming and were still very poor, while countries with fewer farmers but well-equipped ones export huge amounts of food. No, it also depends on what those jobs earn: how many people work matters less than how much value their work produces and is paid for, and those two numbers do not always move together.