The Cosmos is indifferent and uncompromising. It does not care about your feelings or grievances. Every morning it is there, ignoring you, asking the same question: What are you going to do about it?

Most humans are chasing the same things: more and better life — more hours filled with better minutes. More leisure, more pleasure, more satisfaction, more self-esteem, and greater opportunity. This is personal capitalism at its most basic level: the universal drive to improve one’s own condition.