It never ceases to amaze me how so many people in this world live - and comfortably too - but don't do any kind of work that is remotely valuable from society's point of view. It's not just criminals and bureaucrats in sinecures and schoolteachers and old folks on pensions... but even middle aged men like me living on the rents of houses that their dads built for them, and PhD and post-doc scholars pretending to add to the world's knowledge and actually doing much less work in a month than a coolie or rickshawpuller does in a day, or tycoons who have inherited their dads' business and play golf or party most of the time, leaving all the nitty-gritty of running the business to their paid engineer/MBA minions, and ministers without portfolios, and government clerks... the list could go on and on. I really wish some economists should write learned papers on people who ride piggy-back on society throughout their lives...
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All we can do is either sigh at these, or just ignore these, Sir. Like we were discussing that day, much of life's pains disappear when we just start accepting life as it is, and be happy that we are alive, that we can walk in the streets more or less safely (some psychopath will not push us under the wheels of a bus or a train), that we get food 2 times a day, that we have a shelter, that we will not have to at least die of starvation or disease just like that, and many other such things. These sons/daughters of rich people are too lucky, Sir. We cannot blame someone's luck. It is just that they have been privileged with that kind of a life. But we are also happy with whatever we have.
Let them have their ways, and let us have ours! Keep smiling... :)
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