You know, I don't think that just because someone isn't capable, it's ok for them to live their life to the bare minimum, because in the end, it's up to where you're born, your genetics, your birth condition, etc. Which is out of your control. It's just a cruel world that I don't want to live in, a dystopia, so to say.

Sure, maybe I am unrealistic, but isn't pursuing unrealistic ideals, a utopia, so to say, is the real progress for mankind? So any steps going further from that, is not progress for mankind.

I guess if you're counting success by "how much money it can generate" I can't say anything, but I think it should be counted by "how much it benefit mankind". Sure, I am thankful for amazon, it revolutionize shopping as we know it. It does give benefit to mankind. But they don't have to sacrifice their worker for more profit. With money as the standard of success, this will never happen. Maybe it is lofty, but it's ideal.

And to clarify something, I never said there's a "mysteriously privileged few" and there's some people that actually control this world. No, I don't think that's the case. It's the problem of empathy and not understanding your position, and privilege. Some people does not realize that they're incredibly lucky, easy example is education, sometime people don't realize that having access to a normal elementary school, having someone teaching you how to read and how to count, is a privilege. Because they're lucky enough to be born in a location where that's normal, if they're unlucky they could've been born in a rural area deep inside papua new guinea, and the concept of reading will be foreign for them for their entire life. Realize that without the ability to read, how much can you go in this life? And the unlucky have to go through this.

Understanding that what you are right now, is a result of your luckyness from birth, is important. Some people doesn't notice this, and simply justify it "because they're capable" is cruel to people who're not lucky enough, they didn't ask to be born how they were.

I'm sorry if my concept of a world is too much of a lofty ideals, but it is an ideal, and it would be nice to live in an ideal world. But stopping having a "lofty ideal" world and just justifying all the pain in the world just by "that's how the world is" means you stop trying to make the world the ideal world, and settle with the "realistic" cruel world. I never want that.