"Earning" something is not a useless question. As someone who's had things stolen from me before, a large part of the anger comes from feeling like someone took something that you earned through hard work. It's a big reason we criminalise and punish things the way we do as a society.

I know the feeling, yet you did not earn shit. You were on the right side of lucky and we tell ourselves stories of justice.

I didn’t feel lucky when I walked out the college doors and saw my bike was fucking gone.