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In botany: there are an estimated 250,000 flowering plants. The orchid family contains has about 20,000 - 25,000 species. That's one family; 10% of the total kingdom. Then, the Sunflower family has another estimated 20,000 - 25,000 species. (both of these are estimates, but fairly reliable estimates.) So... that's close to 50,000 species between the two families. That means that two families of flowering plants make up almost 25% of the flowering plant world.
Many plants have built-in mechanisms which enable them to poison other plants around them in order to take control of an area. Many others evolved to block out the sun in order to kill off the competition. And still others find more ways to kill or be killed.
I'm not as well versed in the animal world, but the same principle exists there.
This is how nature works: survival of the fittest. If you want more money, wealth, or power, do get it. It's right there. All you need to do is take it.
Survival of the fittest. Stop crying, and get real. Some of us - most of us - were born to live humble existences.
13Million people hold two or more jobs in the US, all mythical folks I suppose. We also has one of the highest hourly workday length of any country (a few still beat us though - yay Russia!). Roughly 20% of homeless people have substance abuse problems - higher than the average, but hardly "most". Most are single parents and their children. 8.5% are military veterans having trouble adjusting to civilian life - or in your words "drug addicted losers".
Yes. It's going great. People can choose to be drug addicted losers and survive (until the drugs and disease kills them) if they want. "Most are single parents with children." No they are not. Where do you get that idea? Same place you got the 13 million people hold 2 or more jobs (with the big fat assumption that they must to survive)? You don't live where there are a bunch of these vagrants, do you? I see them every day and they are mostly, if not ALL, drug addicted losers.