Your bootstraps story is nice. I'm glad things have worked out for you through hard work (and luck). Not everyone is able to do that. They were born in the wrong city/country/time, had the wrong color skin, had a bad stroke of luck, etc.

On the other hand, there's an rather large elite that has more than you have through almost no work. I'd run out of fingers and toes counting those I know personally that have done less work in their entire lives than it sounds like you have in one year, and will never go hungry barring a revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

Also, you may want to change your signature. George Orwell was a committed socialist!