Perhaps enduring hardships will make you a better person, but it certainly doesn't mean you'll have equal opportunities as those without the hardships.And ultimately that's what we're talking about here...not everyone is born with the same likelihood for success.

I can think of no race throughout history that has endured as much as the Jewish people.

I do some resistance stuff, for a few minutes, not training, just to keep toned and keep strength.Michael Lauther, you need to do more curls and work on your endurance!

I earned it by having to endure tenants sit outside, drink lemonade, and watch me paint the outside of their house. 

My parents were told the hardships they had to endure were caused by gamblers who treated stocks as lottery tickets and stocks were a fraud to begin with.

and your larger NNN deals.It's clear Opus wasn't sufficiently capitalized to endure the downturn.  

I will have to look a little further away, and I am considering the fact a property in Chicago would be a schlepp, whereas an apartment near to where I am in the town would be manageable myself (my wife is also a home maker and so she would prolly try it out before resorting to a PM).I like the math working out where if you have to go to a PM worse-case, the math still endures.  

We had to involve the police (residents tax dollars at work) and then the neighbors had to endure several weeks of rehab work.So, while I agree to an extent that one should be able to use their property to their liking, if the use is creating externalities that create a burden on other residents, including city expenditures/tax burden, then I see this as a problem. 

Various public buildings, community centers, schools -- they all help.But the strangest pocket neighborhoods in this town sometimes seem to form and endure for no visible reason at all in areas that were previously C-class and slid slowly into D-class ten or twenty years ago.

On the other hand, you might find that treating people like human beings will make them stay longer saving turnovers and enduring rent increases.