Completely agree. It is often said that those who work (labor) the hardest make the least. There is a huge slave underclass of people on Earth who grow/raise our food, maintain our infrastructure, create our consumer products, etc... who work hard all day and earn practically nothing. Many of these people cannot roll the die even once as you say since they may be in situations of slavery / tyranny / no other options / et al... If we had conscious choice before being born would anyone consciously choose to be one of these people?

How would we rectify this situation? Should the entire world have one flash revolution and start giving everyone 'exactly what they deserve' - exactly what they put in for value? Should we try to expand world resources to make malleable matter from nothing / redistribute resources to the point in which even the underclass have a comfortable life? Just in the US anyway the whole notion of 'redistribution' has trolled a number of people - and rightfully so - as it does not solve the original problem but just shifts money from one arena to another without any regard of 'do they really deserve this'.

I guess in the fairest manifestation of our world everyone would get exactly what they put in. How exactly would we gauge what is of value though since value is a relative phenomenon that fluctuates with time/whim and taste? Some are obvious such as survival/commodities but what about abstract things like art or entertainment?

Anyway I wander off again. At the moment we only know now that luck plays a huge part in your starting position in life and that position plays a huge part in your future potential. If you're a child mining blood diamonds in africa with another kid holding an AK barrel to your head continually chances are you won't be creating a startup and making money / adding value anytime soon.

As unpopular as it is sometimes I think certain people are meant to be screwed. This goes back to my whole belief in karma and reincarnation in which if you don't believe in either this whole argument will fall apart. Assuming multiple lives/experiences are true though then one can see a framework in which one may be rich one life and poor the next to receive the total life experience. Maybe the scales are all balanced in the end and they just look imbalanced from our little slice of consciousness. Just as Tynan introduced his post by observing whether his gambling was within average statistical norms over the long term can we say that over the long term as a human race that we've somehow balanced the scales? If one could track the multitude of lives one has experienced on Earth and summed them up over the long term would they actually balance out to periods of abundance/poverty for experiencing? Maybe we'd need psychics to help us with that one but all I know is without looking further up the chain our world is just bad and somehow internally for some reason I just don't believe our world is inherently like that (especially accounting for the fact that most if not all people are born with an innate sense of justice/fairness as rgcrockett mentioned).

A very well balanced observation of the above. I tend to be more of a biased hard-liner at times (zealotry) so it's refreshing to see how thought processes work out from the neutral stance.

I empathize - or I strive to empathize consciously with the truth of how hard and unfair life is. If any of our situations were reversed and I found myself on the lower polarity I am almost sure I would perform at the level of depression or worse. I don't have much of a shell or tolerance for hardship. With that for the short term of one human life it is obvious to see that life is unfair and the world is run by a neutral or non-existent hand as there is no 'justice' as people term it.

Since there is no fairness/justice in the course of one human experience then - could it be safe to say that our attachment to a notion of 'fariness' and 'justice' can only do us a disservice in the end? Those core beliefs run counter to what most have experienced in life thus far: the world is unfair and not all who do evil are brought to justice in the end. Would we be more effective in improving our lot if we stopped wasting energy on 'boo-hoo life is so unfair and injust' and our mass demonstrations and started using that energy to chip away at what we can change in hopes of carving out support mechanisms to scale the mountain of life? I'm not saying we give up trying to make our world more fair and just - but for starters maybe just accept that what we got is what we got - and it ain't pretty! Energy is a directed resource and time is a limited resource. It would seem like the optimal course of action is not to spend time/energy brooding on unfairness (which wastes time and disperses energy) but to spend both of those forces on self improvement (which directs energy into a singular point[=power] and makes good use of time).

It may very well just be my personal opinion but I believe great strides can be made once people put away the idea that life has to be fair and just. So much suffering has come from people expecting fairness and justice just to be disappointed in the end as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. What if we accepted as truth that our world is flawed - a sandbox for learning about pain and disproportion? On the flip side of that only on our world can you experience the notion of being on top and squashing others below your heel just on the basis of who they are. After all in order for someone to win someone has to lose. It's by definition - the nature of rank and comparison. I imagine many worlds beyond our realm - beyond our comprehension - that are infinitely more fair and just than ours. Any one of us can probably think up a society and method of distribution that is better than our current one. If this is so then there must be a reason why our world is the way it is despite our best intentions.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/42-ways-to-kill-hitler/   That site claims to have documented 40 attempts at Hitler's life. Surely for someone who has caused so much suffering the ether(s) that take governance of our world would let even 1 of 40 thru. Yet he lived thru all of them and got 'lucky' countless times. Almost as if the ether wanted him to carry out his plot.

ultra-personal thought (new age-ish warning): Life is karmically balanced over many lifetimes of the same soul. Some events are premeditated to happen regardless to achieve specific results or payback past karma on this planet. There is justice and fairness but from a frame of reference beyond one human existence. A casino owner thinks slots are the greatest thing in the world until someone hits the big one. A slot player thinks casinos are the most evil thing in the world until they hit that one big jackpot. A human life may not span to see either of those events happen given the long term probabilities slot machines are calculated/certified on. Things seem to make sense when looked at from a higher vantage point.