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Say, you're starving and if you don't get a meal today, you'll die. In such situations, the choice between 15% chance of $1 million and a sure $500 boils down to a choice between 15% chance to survive today and a 100% chance to survive today (assuming that the meal costs less than $500.)
Perhaps the people who chose $500 operate in this 'starvation mode' by default.
The general term for "people who operate in starvation mode" is "the poor".