Yes...you are not doing any favour to the labourers by pitying them here ...you may be doing yourself and others a favour by making yourself feel high and privileged.

As a matter of fact, because of the fact that they do manual work as opposed to sitting on their a---s and sipping coffee all day, they probably live longer, healthier and happier. THAT is ALLAH's justice...everyone gets his fair share of privelege...only we THINK wrongly that we are more privileged than the other. But you never really know that you really are luckier just because you are sitting in a 4 wheel SUV.

The labourer working on top of an under construction sky scraper will most likely never get Type-2 Diabetes.

But yes we must thank the Almighty at all times. The 'poor' is being tested whether he thanks the Almighty despite the scarce resources; and the 'rich' is being tested whether he would spend a reasonable amount of his money on helping the poor and the orphans (not just write pityful emails on qatarliving).