Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
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.