If you can retire in your early thirties, well, what of it? I chose a career that was unlikely to make me wealthy. Most people (except city folks) are a bit jealous of my day to day activities, but on the other hand, I'll never be rich, either. Maybe this was also a result of growing up so comfortably: My objectives were not material wealth (I could always assume sufficiency, though not wealth), but other goals. Those gals (the crew I refer to was almost exclusively female) were raised to a different goal (need I say what it was?), and achieved it. It wasn't a matter of lazy for them, they were successful by the measure they were raised to value, so was I. They will never be rich, and I probably won't either, but it isn't out of laziness, just different values.
Being rich has nothing to do with it. My rant was totally directed at people who blame the rest of society for the fact that they don't have a pot to piess in.



Care to add a citation for that? It is not consistent with what I heard.
Yeah I'll look for it.

Oh, now we elect the ACE? And are you suggesting that the idiots you elect are better? Blaming people for their own misfortune is a wonderful way of absolving yourself of any responsibility. You are effectively saying that they suffer because they deserve it. That's absurd in this case. The people didn't vote in an engineering failure.
No But the levy was assed and funds were provided to fix it. Who wasted the money? They voted for people who knew the problem existed and ignored it. Dont blame me, I voted for terd sandwich. I told you all giant douche would screw it up.

I'm glad you're proud of your own accomplishments, but you gain no respect from me by casually classifying whole categories of people as lazy and stupid because they have not your glorious radiance. You yourself, despite all your accomplishments, are no more than the roll of the dice away from the gutter.
The only thing I'm proud of is that I'm not back in my home city sitting around with all of my childhood friends complaining that their welfare check didn't cover the heating bill. And then have the ballz to blame their situation on everyone in the world but themselvs. I did not "casually classifying whole categories of people as lazy and stupid because they have not your glorious radiance"