I disagree. I think hardship is a valuable experience that everyone should endure. 1) You only really get to know yourself when you find yourself eating rice f

I disagree. I think hardship is a valuable experience that everyone should endure. 1) You only really get to know yourself when you find yourself eating rice for the hundredth time in a row, and live on the floor of an abandoned building. 2) "never again" is one hell of a motivator 3) you gain the knowledge that all these things, all this crap we fill our lives with, is totally unnecessary 4) empathy. Live below the bottom rung for a while and you'll understand far more keenly what poverty is like. The idea of being in that situation and not having the skills, knowledge or gumption to not bootstrap out, or not having the vision to realise you already have, is terrifying.