“Bad luck”. Riiiiight.
I love the Robert Heinlein quote about “bad luck”:
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck”.
I like that quote, and will use it somewhere down the line in the newspaper comments section.
Thank you.