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People aren't born worthy of anything. Thinking otherwise is childish. We need to earn things because they're not unlimited. Living a happy peaceful life means consuming things, if you don't provide things back no one is going to give you anything to consume.

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Isn't the point of standing on the shoulders of giants that we should reach farther and greater heights than they ever could? To seek to provide for your children is human - and to provide for others in general is human as well. So what happens when the provisions of the past exceed the demands of the present? Do we grow our demand, as we've done so many times? Or do we seek to alleviate our struggles and strive for growth for it's own sake, rather than for the sake of our own survival? I prefer the 2nd option

> People aren't born worthy of anything. Thinking otherwise is childish.

The entire fields of early childhood development and mental health counseling firmly disagree with you.

I'm not sure what this means. It'd be nice if people had free access to mental health counseling, but guess what, mental health counselors require payment. If you want things you need to work for them. Until robots do everything that will remain reality.

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