Maggie Thatcher and Abraham Lincoln

[My Name Is Kate]

I don't understand all this obsession with wanting to get rich (and wanting to be famous often goes along with that). People ought to want to be useful and be a decent person, and as long as they have enough material wealth to satisfy their basic needs, and have equal opportunity to improve their circumstances if they can, they ought to be content. There is no need to single out any group of people as being inherently lazy or without ability or talents. Less talented people can naturally expect to be less wealthy. And it's true that there is an unfair distribution of wealth in this world, and it's not right for some people to be billionaires (even if they earned their billions) and some people to not have enough to eat. But if people are not going to be happy until they have everything they see other people having, whether it be wealth, fame, good looks, talent, or whatever, maybe they ought to consider not reproducing, so they don't pass on that attitude to future generations.