But it's not about being 'owed' anything - just that others may have less to 'earn'......

So what is your point? Because I was not born to the Queen of England that the rest of the world owed me something because the heirs to the throne had 'unearned' benefits that I didn't?

Sorry, Viv, but we all come into the world in out own unique circumstances and, IMHO, no amount of socialism is going to change that. It's like the pigs said in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" = "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others".