No.. I'm nowhere near the league of many of those mentioned above, but I strongly suspect hard work and shrewd decisions gets you somewhere, whereas moaning and showing envy gets you into an early grave through stress.

Why is it that whenever anybody mentions inequities, they're accused of being envious? While I wouldn't mind being mindbogglingly rich, what I chiefly want is for them to stop sucking dry the economy I depend upon.

And don't give me the "they earned it" crap. Rich begets rich and there are very few Horatio Algers (although more power to 'em that can). Very very few of us, working as hard as we could, could reach the level of a Wall Street bank executive. The playing field is so tilted it's more like a climbing wall, and those of us who start at the bottom have a lot of climbing to do -- those who are born 5 feet from the top have something of an advantage, I think it should be obvious.