[amelius]

> I disagree. I optimize for myself AND the people around me. That is because I don't feel good when I have everything and others have nothing.

True. But most try to make sure that they have just a little bit more than anybody else around them.

[simonh]

That is not always true in my experience. Several generations on my and my wife's families put up with backbreaking hard work and privations in order to build a better future for later generations. Simultaneously other branches of our families spent what they had and enjoyed better lives at the time instead. It was a huge investment that really paid off in my generation, my family's debt to them is incalculable and largely unpayable.

[fumar]

I feel the same way.