Stop Complaining and do Something About it.
If you go back a mere two hundred years, the chances are that most people reading this blog in the UK would be working 14 hours a day in shocking conditions for a wage that barely met the cost of living, and when I say living, a more accurate description would be existing. The poor were poor, and the wealthy were wealthy, it was just the way things were, and there was nothing that the poor could do about it. There were no mass education systems, and no opportunities to better yourself. Other than hard labour in the fields, or in a factory, the only other option was the military, which would often mean spending years away from your family, and an almost inevitable death on foreign soil. If you were not born into wealth, you would never be wealthy. Though Britain was technically a constitutional monarchy, it was arguably not a true democracy. Only a select few could vote, and those who could were pressured, or threatened into voting to maintain the status quo. Those who attempted re...