If by "does nothing" you mean assuming the tax burden to pay for the health care of those who can't afford it...
Our star is in the second generation, so anyone around a first generation star had a head start of a few billion years.
But you're forgetting that those first generation stars would not have abundant "interesting" elements form which to both form life and conduct interesting experiments with. These elements are birthed during the late cycles of a star's life and hence would not have been available to a first gen star system.
In your typical Best Buy you can and will find people who with a bit of training could have become darn good developers and admins, but the best they can manage is working overtime for the Geek Squad to make ends meet. Explain that via personal decision-making.
Are you *seriously* comparing Geek Squad "skills" to being a adeveloper/admin? Seriously? Have you never seen a slashdot flamewar on the difference between IT support and CS?
While we Americans were sitting on our rears eating bon-bons, more Russians died than in all of America's wars combined fighting Adolph Hitler. Love them or hate them, forced by circumstances or not, the Russians did more to save Western Europe from Nazism than anyone else.
How's that? The fact that they suffered higher casualties does not at all correllate to their contribution to "saving Western Europe". Perhaps they suffered higher casualties because they were an inferior fighting force. Maybe if Stalin hadn't murdered the vast majority of his military leadership during the great purge from 1937-1938 then his armies would have faired better... from wikipedia:
"The purge of the army removed three of five marshals (then equivalent to six-star generals), 13 of 15 army commanders (then equivalent to four- and five-star generals), eight of nine admirals (the purge fell heavily on the Navy, who were suspected of exploiting their opportunities for foreign contacts[24]), 50 of 57 army corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders, 16 of 16 army commissars, and 25 of 28 army corps commissars")
yeah...I'm sure that had nothing to do with their staggering losses...just a couple years later..
True they sacrificed more in terms of lives lost - but they were also fighting for their survival as a nation... if they were so interested in saving Western Europe then maybe that wouldn't have signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939 (complete with a secret pact collaborating with the Germans on carving up eastern Europe and the balatics).
After reading your post do you seriously expect us to believe you are in either category? Just sayin'!
Ah...but would that be Lawful evil or chaotic evil?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
