You were lucky
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Context: "You were lucky. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you."
You were lucky. I had to evolve self-replicating organic compounds in the primeval ocean soup, then work billions of years to invent new organisms which could attack and eat their predecessors, until we arrive at today, as our successors prepare to eat us.
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