Donuel, you're quite correct about those biggest "baddies" at the top of the power chain...they usually get off scot free.

However, I do not envy them the lives they have. I would not wish to change places with them.

What I was speaking about was more the collective sense of a whole humanity...and what happens to most people who behave simply according to their most selfish impulses...it usually doesn't pan out well for them in the long run. One can always find specific exceptions to such generalisations.

The high and the mighty usually die quietly in bed, surrounded by all their money and possessions. Whether they have "won the game" at that point is a matter of opinion. ;-) Is it really true that "he who dies with the most toys wins"?

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

I think that he who lives in the most positive and loving way wins...because what he won was each happy day that his attitude gave him while he was here.