This is a lovely sentiment. I’m in awe of my own father’s capacity for work. He grew up in a village in Bangladesh and raised us in privilege in America.

Russell I should add, was born into aristocracy, and was a romantic and communist sympathizer.

> Russell expressed great hope in "the Communist experiment." However, when he visited the Soviet Union and met Vladimir Lenin in 1920, he was unimpressed with the system in place. On his return he wrote a critical tract, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. He was "infinitely unhappy in this atmosphere—stifled by its utilitarianism, its indifference to love and beauty and the life of impulse." Although critical of its implementation in Soviet Russia, he still believed "that Communism is necessary to the world."

The world has tremendous labor to be done. Billions of people yearn to live the kind of comfortable life Russell lived. That won’t come to pass through idleness.