[brogrammer2018]

> But there is significant number of folks who can only dream of basic needs. For them we are the fortunate ones.

Not true. Your statement is an example of sour grapes:

"In an old fable by Aesop, a hungry fox noticed a bunch of juicy grapes hanging from a vine. After several failed attempts to reach the grapes, the fox gave up and insisted that he didn't want them anyway because they were probably sour.

Nowadays when somebody expresses sour grapes, it means that they put down something simply because they can't have it."

[htanirs]

I did not intend to mean it that way. I agree, we all need to aspire for better life and sour grapes / self pity does not help.

My point is, there are good number of people living below poverty line. Usually poverty has many friends like unemployment, violence, long term health issues (sometimes terminal illness), self inflicted and external abuse. While they also need to aspire to do better, they start their life with a bigger handicap and hostile environment. They need higher amount of courage, conviction and persistence to make things better.

Since the question was based on comparison, wanted to put it in context.