<Thank God it's not fair. If it were fair, we would be eating rice, dying at 45, and glad of it. There are more of them than us, and they are just as wonderful as humans as we.

The sense of entitlement many of us have is just that - a sense. No merit to it.



There are damn good reasons they are eating rice and dying at 45, and we're not only living and eating better, but half the time we're shipping them the rice. But of course everyone's probably tired of me pointing out the differences in the economic and political systems that various nations have adopted. Suffice it to say that yes, they are as smart and as skilled as we are, and when someday they lose their chains, they will do quite well too.

We, along with a lot of hard work by our ancestors, have earned the lifestyle we have in this country. Fair and square. Socialists will fight this idea tooth and nail, but that's largely due to the fact that the concept of "earn" runs square across the grain of the socialist ideal.

If there is any luck involved, it is the luck I had to be born here, where I at least had a chance. The rest was up to me.