India is choking to death - why isnt Greta over there?

[Fatboxingfan]

People who think people are so important that they are owed something in this world are the ones who have missed the mark and who are off Target in their expectations

Nobody owes anybody anything. Things happen randomly. s*** happens. People die. Reality is unfair. It's always been that way. There's always been a big bad government or a big bad King that we can blame. It's never going to change. It hasn't changed for thousands and thousands of years. you live by the Golden rule. It is sad but he who has the gold does rule. You go ahead and try to change it. It is simply the way things are. moaning and moaning about the super rich and how the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer blah blah blah this has been going on since the Sumerians and the Babylonians

Nobody owes anybody anything. it is just random events and it is just too bad for the ones who are on the short end of the stick. It sucks and I will be the first one who says that it sucks but that is reality and some people just don't want to admit it. Let's see you change reality that will be nice. Good luck. Do I hate the people who are abusing other people? Of course I do. Do I think it's ever going to change? No I don't this is not an LSD Mary Poppins world. This is the way it is. here it is the Tories but over there it is Julius Caesar and here it was George Bush and over there it was the Khmer rouge in Cambodia. It was idi Amin in Africa. It was the shah of Iran in Persia. It's always somebody and it always happens and it's never going to change and a lot of people can't live with that reality because they would jump off a bridge if they had to admit that it is all inevitable

THAT IS TRUE WISDOM THAT I HAVE JUST STATED BUT THE ONES WHO CANNOT FACE IT WILL SAY THAT IT IS PURE INSANITY AND THAT IT IS PESSIMISM. WHATEVER GIVES YOU HOPE THAT YOU CAN CHANGE HUMAN NATURE THEN GO AHEAD AND KEEP THAT HOPE ALIVE.

[Gandalf]

As The Economist argued, the rich and the poor make different choices and that is one reason why outcomes are as they are. If I had been raised well and encouraged to become a surgeon, then it could have happened, but it didn't and so all we can do is improve the best we can and go with what we have. That is the only reason I encourage good guidance and self responsibility. There is no fairy who will magic the bad stuff away and Communism has never gone well.

[Fatboxingfan]

As The Economist argued, the rich and the poor make different choices and that is one reason why outcomes are as they are. If I had been raised well and encouraged to become a surgeon, then it could have happened, but it didn't and so all we can do is improve the best we can and go with what we have. That is the only reason I encourage good guidance and self responsibility. There is no fairy who will magic the bad stuff away and Communism has never gone well.

Things are random. Atoms are random. Subatomic particles are random. The circumstances of our childhoods are random. Nobody is entitled to anything despite what human law says. Someone could walk in and machine-gun the whole room right now. Tough luck that's just the way it goes there's nobody that can stop it. That's the way it goes there are no guarantees you cannot take out an insurance policy to protect you against random stuff. We will all get crushed in the machine sooner or later. Some will get crushed with a large bank account some will get crushed with no bank account. Everybody will get there in the end.

[walrus]

As The Economist argued, the rich and the poor make different choices and that is one reason why outcomes are as they are. If I had been raised well and encouraged to become a surgeon, then it could have happened, but it didn't and so all we can do is improve the best we can and go with what we have. That is the only reason I encourage good guidance and self responsibility. There is no fairy who will magic the bad stuff away and Communism has never gone well.

@Gandalf do you subscribe to the economist? I have for the past 5 years or so my script just ran out need to reup