Try being gracious.

It means complacently foolish.

Moving what goal posts?

Your remarks on military service.

As to petty resentments, LOL

Your complaint is that they were born wealthy. It’s not difficult to understand why this complaint is petty and inane. Flip the script and imagine someone who grew up in an Ecuadorean slum evaluating you. Or perhaps an ordinary wage earner who came of age with my grandmother.

I cannot see how this affects my argument in the least

Try being sharper.

The term ‘fatuous’ does not mean what you fancy it means.

First when I say they live a life of ease, I’m not necessarily saying they are lazy, just that their life is easy compared to most normal people. Most people do not live in the luxury they live in 24/7 and many have jobs that require far more manual labor than they will ever experience.

About 15% of the working population in this country is employed in agriculture and industry and a slice of them are support staff and management. There are some service sector jobs which require stamina. Shy of 4% of the working population is to be found in transportation and materials moving and another 11% are in hospitality. Again, some of these are support staff and management. Hands-on medical sector employees amount to about 6% of the working population.

Two of the Queen’s three sons, two of her three adult grandsons, and two of her six paternal side cousins (male) had extensive time in the service. That’s well well in excess of the mean for any of those cohorts into which they were born. Overall, they logged 88 man-years in various branches of the British military. One other paternal-side cousin was a combat veteran who served time as a prisoner of war. The Queen’s husband was in service for 11 years.

Has Prince Harry or any Royal ever been unemployed where he had to worry about making a house or rent payment? I’ve been out of work twice in my career and it is a scary ass thing. Has he/they ever had to worry about his medical care? I doubt it. I view a life of ease as one without any significant hardships or struggles. I can’t really see that they’ve had any nor does your list provide them.

The worry about medical care in Britain is that you’ll be stuck in a queue, not that you cannot pay for it. Harry’s 36 years old and is like most men of that age; he’s never spent much time in doctor’s waiting rooms.

The average person has about 28 months worth of interstitial unemployment over the course of their adult life in this country, with typical instances lasting about 15 weeks. Somewhat under 1/2 qualify for unemployment compensation. I doubt Britain today is much different, though people who were in the working population there ca. 1986 are quite familiar with l/t unemployment. It’s abnormally concentrated among young people and among people who rely on low skill service jobs. It’s not hard to find people who know little of unemployment past age 25. Are you cheesed at them too?

Was this before or after he was boinking underage girls on Jeffrey Eptein’s island?

I’ll remind the commissioner of jurors in your area that you’re one to strike every time. For the record, he was in service from 1979 to 1999.

Thanks for the display of petty resentment and the goal post moving. It’s been an education.

Sorry I was pressed for time trying to get to work.

So let me try to address your list / concern.

First when I say they live a life of ease, I’m not necessarily saying they are lazy, just that their life is easy compared to most normal people. Most people do not live in the luxury they live in 24/7 and many have jobs that require far more manual labor than they will ever experience.

Has Prince Harry or any Royal ever been unemployed where he had to worry about making a house or rent payment? I’ve been out of work twice in my career and it is a scary ass thing. Has he/they ever had to worry about his medical care? I doubt it. I view a life of ease as one without any significant hardships or struggles. I can’t really see that they’ve had any nor does your list provide them.

You mention philanthropic projects, by that standard I guess I can’t say that Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos have an easy life now. But at least they did have to work hard and were not necessarily given it on a literal silver platter. How did any of the Royals ever have to really struggle for what they were given? Yes they have duties, BFD.

You mention Prince Andrew being in the military for 20 years. Was this before or after he was boinking underage girls on Jeffrey Epstein’s island? I was in the military also, for 4 years, non-combat, Air Force. I spent those four years in either a barracks or dormitory. Did Prince Andrew live for 20 years in a dormitory? If so, I’m impressed. His military service is laudatory but I doubt it represented a real hardship or struggle. But if it did, it certainly isn’t how he lives now and doesn’t compensate much for his other escapades.

As for their public appearances, I couldn’t give a rats ass. If you want to declare that that represents a hard working life. Fine. I don’t.

They are fatuous people who live fatuous lives.

Piers Morgan is sort of unknown to me but I find myself very much in his corner right now. A hero!

Sorry, no sale.

Sorry, I’m not persuaded that Buttigieg had any choices over what his work assignments.

Buttigieg is a walking resume.

While we’re at it, when you’re a core city mayor, the one set of metrics which matters more than any other are crime rates. If anything, they got marginally worse during his tenure. (As they did during Cory Booker’s tenure in Newark).