Switched at birth: Son born to rich parents sues hospital after life of poverty

I don't think he deserved to win the lawsuit. Just because you happen to be born to a rich family doesn't make you deserving of being rich. And according to the elite philosophy, he doesn't deserve to win the lawsuit, because his life of poverty proved that he is undeserving. I disagree with the elite on that. How a person does in life is hugely influenced by accidental circumstances. Everyone should have a chance to reach their potential.

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by Arata Yamamoto and Alexander Smith, NBC News
Nov. 29, 2013

A Japanese man born to wealthy parents has been awarded about $371,000 in damages after accidentally being switched with another baby and spending decades in living in poverty.

It was almost 60 years before a DNA test revealed the life-changing mistake by a hospital worker who had bathed the newborns and returned them to the wrong mothers.

The men spent decades living each others' lives: one man living off welfare checks before working as a truck driver, the other enjoying a private education and now runs his own real-estate business.

"I feel ... regret and also anger," the poverty-stricken man, who has withheld his identity, told a press conference on Wednesday. "I want them to turn back the clock."

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Instead of the life of affluence for which he was destined, the man lived off welfare checks and grew up in a small apartment which had no electrical appliances. His given mother raised him and two siblings after their father died when he was two.

The other baby grew up as the eldest of four siblings in a well-off family. He received private tutoring and went to university.

The error was uncovered in 2009 after the wealthy family realized one of the four brothers did not share their likeness and requested a DNA test. After they found out they were not related they searched hospital records and eventually found their true brother in 2011.

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