Why does an intentional superimposition of inferiority cause placation in the "inferior"?

For instance, short people don’t make lilliputian basketball leagues that are popular enough to be played in stadiums…

For instance, laying around and being poor instead of making something of yourself…

As long as the individual is considered sovereign, what you describe cannot be be a problem. When the individual is subordinated in value to a group or the political state, you get the problem.

We’re great apes. We’re wired to take social hierarchy seriously. We still have our alpha individuals and our submissives. That’s the legacy of natural selection.

While we love a good story about someone who shows pluck in the face of rejection, our love of pluck only goes so far. Most undocumented immigrants are people who refuse to knuckle under. These are people who on the face of it should be losers in the hierarchy game. But they refuse to just roll over. You could probably even say the same of some gang members. Well, it turns out that we can’t tolerate pluck so well when it doesn’t play out according to our socially approved scripts. Everybody likes pluck until it threatens their place in the hierarchy, or the hierarchy itself.

Learning to accept whatever happens in life is tantamount to enlightenment.
One mans defeat is another mans retreat.
Bowing out gracefully is not being apathetic, it is often the smartest move. Cut your losses and move on.

Pain happens, suffering is optional,and necessary losses are part of every beings evolutionary process.

thank you for your insightful answers.