Living well—that was thanks to your own ability.
Living poorly—that was what you deserved!
Because that was how she saw it.
Even if many people claimed that the country had given them nothing and everything they had came from their own efforts, they had spent their family's money and relied on their own hard work.
Wasn't that laughable?
Without the stable environment provided by the country,
without the country's various policies regulating the market—never mind whether they were good or bad! At the very least, they allowed people to start businesses and engage in commerce.
Could you have had such excellent family conditions?
Could you have had the ability and qualifications to attend school and study?
Whether they were tycoons or high-ranking officials,
three to five generations back, they might well have all been farmers.
Without the policies provided by the country,
your grandparents, or even your parents, might have spent their entire lives hauling bricks in the countryside.
Things were better now.
And you were telling her that none of what you had was related to the country?
How was that any different from tearing down the bridge after crossing the river?
First came the nation, then came the family.
That had been true since ancient times.
Take the Middle East, for example.
It was plagued by war, chaos, and poverty.
If you had been born there, without a powerful country to protect you, just try it and see. You couldn't even get enough to eat—how could you expect to go to school?
In a broader sense,
when you earned resources, it meant you had occupied a share.
You had benefited from and drawn nourishment from the country, the cities, society, the economy, and countless other aspects.
Yet you simply patted yourself on the behind and claimed that everything