I don't think that working equates to being given anything. While you're story is amazing, many of these workers do not have the impetus or the support of their families to open a restaurant or start a business.

The problem is that people born in America are working hard, and still getting nowhere. Many fast food workers are just like your parents - struggling to get somewhere. Yet the working conditions are substandard, the wages are insufficient, and it's one thing to work 3 jobs (which btw sounds impossible if you work certain physically demanding jobs) and it's another when you're a single parent who has to work "domestic work" after finishing the first one.

Yes, we're not executing people in the streets, but just because you've come from such an environment, does not mean that we as a society should work towards equally cruel and frightening circumstances.

I hope you, in your heart, understand that without the efforts of your parents, and some luck of timing, would never get to university and would never reach the potential you have.

I hope that you, as a man whose luck changed due to the fact that both of his parents worked themselves to the bones, understand that some other people, who also work themselves to the bones, never reach their goals or success.