Hey, you have a point. I'm definitely lucky. You're probably lucky too relative to most sentient beings. Feelings of being superior are a natural defense mechanism to the fear that we all have. The question is, what are you going to do about it? You can play the cards you're dealt. You can help others. You can work on understanding your life. Or, you can blame others or blame society. Which do you think leads to happiness?

I don't have any daddy-money. But I found someone who did, and who also happened to learn quite a bit of business acumen from said daddy. He funded our operation, handles the business side, and I handle engineering. It worked out very well in the end. Of course the real world isn't always fair, but there's always ways to adapt and come out on top. Step 1 is to stop complaining about it.

China's lack of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and free elections are incredibly scary to me. It may not seem like that big of a deal right now, as they try to play nicely with the world. But what happens in 20 years when they become the richest & most powerful nation, and no longer have the incentive to play fairly? They have complete control over their people due to the lack of the above democratic checks. The Chinese people have no idea about the genocides committed in their near past, Tiananmen Square, etc. What happens when the most powerful nation on earth lacks any kind of social discourse??

My co-worker wasted a couple hours trying to install a second graphics card on Ubuntu, before inserting the card into a Windows machine and realizing that the card simply didn't work. IMO, that illustrates a significant reason to stay away from desktop Linux. Solving computer problems is complex enough already, adding in another dimension because of, say, uncertainty in the correctness of your config files, can greatly magnify the hassle and amount of wasted time. Yes, the time is worth it on mission critical applications, but I'm sticking to Windows for my desktop until my confidence in things "just working" increases enough to get rid of this dimension in problem solving.