That's because America is the land where misery is virtue. We could have all trappings of a true first-world country with ease if we wanted to. But where's the

That's because America is the land where misery is virtue. We could have all trappings of a true first-world country with ease if we wanted to. But where's the fun in that? Much better to pretend that everyone else is a leech or a slob and decide that the only way to get quality work out of them is to make them as miserable as possible. Do honest manual labor because book learning isn't your thing? Better have 3 jobs to be as virtuous as the guy who drank through 4 years of college.