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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6150422" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>When you use your phone, surf the Internet, drive your car, fly in a plane, take a drug for what ails you, keep your money safe in a bank with 24/7 access to it, etc, etc, etc, thank a white guy.  The happy natives the whites encountered hadn't even invented the wheel.  There's plenty.to not like about modern life but much of it stems from people who didn't create wealth for themselves and are envious of those who did.  I 100% agree with you that some are exploitive SOB's and history is full of examples of that.  But today it's mostly people figuring out a better way to do things and being rewarded for that.  If we take that away in order to put everyone on the same level then most innovation goes away.  Kidding ourselves to think it won't.</p></blockquote><p></p>