&gt; but would you say &quot;life isn&#x27;t fair, deal with it&quot; to slaves in the South in the 1800s?<p>Yes, I would say exactly that.<p>I would tell them to accept their situation, not whine about it, then break free and run to the north. Many did just that.<p>When they got to the north, I would encourage them to work  hard and make a better life for themselves through hard work. Many did just that.<p>Yes, they would need to work harder than <i>insert privileged example here</i> to have a good life. Because they&#x27;re starting from zero. And that&#x27;s fine. Because that&#x27;s life.<p>Many of us start from zero or worse. Many of us were hurt or are being hurt by someone&#x27;s unjust actions. That doesn&#x27;t mean you try to rig the system.<p>We are born with thousands of disadvantages and thousands of advantages. You simply can&#x27;t engineer a system that will compensate for all of that to create some sort of utopia. We tried that before. It didn&#x27;t go so well.