All of this talk about complaining reminds of the old joke about a man from Eastern Germany who had applied for permission to emigrate to Western Germany. He was interviewed by a government official who couldn’t quite understand why he would want to move.

“Why exactly do you want to move to the west. You have a nice appartment…”

“I can’t complain.”

“And you finally received that car you’ve been applying for.”

“I can’t complain.”

“And you have a nice job at the shoe factory.”

“I can’t complain.”

“So why do you want to move to the west?”

“Because there I can complain.”