Can this be changed to the:
"Is life REALLY fair?" thread since there are so many tangents.
In college I watched two guys compete on which was the fastest way to turn out an axle with very precise bearing lands. One used a CNC lathe, the other a WW2 monarch (a nice peice of machinery as long as the vacuum tubes worked). End result they finished at the same time with the same quality of part. The CNC guy did have 4 scrap axles though.
If the task was to make 2 perfect axles the CNC guy would have won.
Be grateful for what you have (there is always someone who has less). Work hard to earn more, but remember someone will always have more. Very skilled people have helped rookies buid nice robots on Thursdays will little more than hacksaws and hand drills.
As my fifth grade math teach used to sing:
"I once had the blues cause I got no shoes
'til I happened to meet a man with no feet."