>Initiative. People with initiative tend to be better off regardless of how bad anything else is. That's just a truism though. Your advice may as well be "rea

>Initiative. People with initiative tend to be better off regardless of how bad anything else is. That's just a truism though. Your advice may as well be "read more books" or "work harder". These are not solutions to the wider problems facing our societies. >You should hold yourself to whatever standard is most appropriate for you. Crying about how bad life is, or expecting sympathy, probably won't get you what you to where you want to be. To be dissatisfied with our society and the inter-generational transfers of wealth is is to "cry" and to "expect sympathy"? You've build up a nifty little strawman there that allows you to be awfully condescending, and that's nice and all, but as with all strawmen, it's not grounded in reality. >There is a world of difference between sympathy and empathy. One of those is a childish quality that results in nothing positive. The other allows you to improve yourself and the world around you. If you cannot tell the difference you are no position to suggest such opinions of others. Sorry but what is your point? Self-improvement is great and something we should all aspire to, yes! But why then is improving our society off limits? We cannot improve something without first criticising it. I don't understand why you are so sensitive to people criticising where we are just because people in Africa are poorer. It does not make sense to me.