Point taken......however, the people who built that hut are 500 MILLION times smarter than the braindead, dumbfucking asshole running for president on the democrat ticket.

"The second one was built by slaves in a patriarchal system of oppression, " - some liberal arts studies professor, probably.

All men are NOT created equally!

Actually, all men ARE created equally.  Which is not to say they are created equal.

OP your whiteness is sickening

A great deal of thought has gone into this concern over the centuries. The "Rights of Man" declared during the French Revolution set a goal of equality of opportunity, but not equality of ability.

From the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
Article 6: All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.

One could say that even the die-hard Marxists would agree (somewhat)
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.

Perhaps even the Marxist ideal above is not promising a comfortable lifestyle to all, but only "to his needs...". So what is the minimum a person "needs" in a Marxist society? A basic ration of food staples and a collective roof over one's head.  The impression I have today is that our current crop of would-be socialists translate this as everyone getting a luxury spa lifestyle, while partying and sleeping 10 hours a day, because, well... equality. I have good friends that struggled to get here from places like Cuba, China and the USSR, and they are some of the strongest opponents of this false promise.

All men are created equal (in that) they are endowed by their created with certain inalienable rights.

Everyone is equal in that we have these rights. We are not equal in much of anything else. We don't need to be.

Created equally what?

Equality of opportunity

You must have skills, initiative, imagination, social and familial connections, etc to take advantage of those opportunities.
Some people are less capable or less motivated.

Fact of life.

The people who demand equality of outcome are jealous failures.

This is why everyone in class must proceed at the rate of the stupidest kid.

Let no dummy be left behind, and fuck the rest of the class.

I'll bet that when the Colosseum was built the walls were not plastered with cow shit.

Just a hunch I have.

Isn't there a slight difference due to greater mortality?

50%+ male, 49%+ female.

The quote from the Declaration of Independence is written from an 18th century perspective. It is in reference to the idea of human rights and is a rejection of a rigid caste system and of the concept of divine right. This is key to understand, you cannot be created equal to a man who rules over you as God's ordained sovereign. By stating your equality as a human being you are rejecting the very idea that another man is divinely ordained above you to rule you. You are stating that the government should have to respect your rights and that your leaders should be bound to respect your rights. These were all novel ideas.  
It does not mean that all mean have equal abilities, that is an interpretation that is obviously absurd.

More info:

The English system, even with a king was still extremely progressive for Europe thanks in large to the Magna Carta. The Declaration of Independence was invoking the ideas of rights that stemmed from that tradition.

For examples of opposing ideas see:
1. Frederick William IV of Prussia  (Mr. A crown from the Gutter, when offered the title a king of the Germans.)
2. Louis_XIV (Mr. I am the state. and continued of the caste system outlined in the Ancien Régime.)
3. Style of the French Sovereign The difference between the Legitimists and the Orléanist was real and not a concept limited to just France. King of the French vs the King of France. Little changes in words meant big things to them. It may seem odd or difficult to wrap one's mind around, but there were European nations that legitimately believed in Divine right as a government policy in the 18th and even 19th centuries.
4. Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality (The Russian counter revolutionary policy of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.  Opposite of the liberal ideas of the west.)

For an easy to listen to podcast content I highly recommend the Revolutions podcast. In particular:
1. The French Revolution
2. The Bourbon Restoration and July revolution
3. The Failed Revolutions of 1848
4. The Russian Revolution

Ironically, the top structure is still standing while the bottom one is a ruin, with the Roman Empire long gone.

Only took eleven replies before this poster got it right.
This place is an amazing echo chamber of intellectual sterility.

We are not all created equal.

There is also a lot of confusion between equal outcome and equal opportunity.

Freedom is not free

Free men are not equal

Equal men are not free.

Its a gather of link mined folks, what do you expect?

Not exactly like their is a large liberal following of this forum.

Oh they understand. And they've subtly changed the language yet again to get it into the collective consciousness.

Notice all the talk recently about racial "equity"? That's exactly what that means and most of the population isn't giving it a second thought. Same with "anti-racism". Altering the language just enough so it sounds good to people, but way different implications.

You must first climb high before you are able to fall far.

What will the first one look like in a coupe of thousand years?

No doubt.  It is an interesting observation though.  

Who is more successful?  

The star that burn brightest and then implodes, or the one that never burns brightly but persists.

The poster didn’t mean the two photos this way, but it’s a good metaphor for things like career and society.  

The Roman Empire may be gone but it's decendents are living in skyscrapers and flying airplanes. While the decendents of those that were living in mud huts 2 thousand years ago still are.

Of course not, OP. Tall, short, smart, dumb, etc....

But that’s not what the founders meant.

Equal treatment under the law does not mean people are entitled to equal opportunities in life or equal outcomes.

It only meant in a legal and moral way, nobody is the king and nobody is a slave.

It just means everybody has the same God given inalienable rights.