Failure is bad. Sadness is bad. Trying to paint degrees of hopelessness on people and saying the privileged shouldn't complain is wrong. You are always the pri

Failure is bad. Sadness is bad. Trying to paint degrees of hopelessness on people and saying the privileged shouldn't complain is wrong. You are always the privileged to someone else. Being happy is what everyone aspires to - and for many, it means success and doing stuff - as in creating, or as in having a job (much more important that having a salary at least to some people such as Ghandi) The 48 yo unqualified factory worker right to happiness is just as important as your and mine - we haven't find a good way to say which persons happiness are to be prioritized. Also, the right to happiness doesn't and shouldn't mean forced equality for everyone - some will fail, some will succeed. But IMHO you're very wrong in your rant. You shouldn't say that what you consider "priviledged" should shut up - it almost read as if they should engage in some shadefreude, finding happiness while watching other people barely making a living. That's even worse. You should celebrate instead that he had a chance, and wish him and every other human being to succeed in their endeavours - whatever they are.