Letter to the editor: Random cosmic luck

If you were born in America, you did not earn your citizenship. The best reason I can come up with for your good fortune is random cosmic luck. In fact, your chances of hitting the “billion dollar lottery” are better than the odds that placed your life in this country at this moment in time.

You could have been born in some “——hole country,” as the president put it: malnourished, homeless or dead at age 5 from war. Most of the security you enjoy isn’t a product of your “hard work”; it is what happens when you are born in the right place at the right time. You did nothing to earn the basic skills, instincts and safety that allow you to thrive. The people living in the “——hole” did nothing to deserve the horrendous circumstances in their life.

You are the sum of your inheritances and so are they. Stop acting as though you are better than people who lack your good cosmic fortune. In reality you are the one getting something for nothing.

Thomas C. Spallone

Hempfield