"So we don’t need to improve ourselves - let us all just lay down in the mud and wallow with the pigs and die OK?"
That was me, folks. Granted, it was a very, very irate me.
Complacency certainly comes easy when you have certain, suitable *cough*skewed*cough* points of reference.
Why bother aiming upwards and onwards when you can preen yourself on how well you’re doing compared to those far, far worse off?