Pyotr had his education, job, career, healthcare, housing, paid vacation, retirement, social clubs, hobby clubs, cinema, opera, theater guaranteed. Moreover, he also had all of that guaranteed for his children at the moment they were born. While Joe had it much easier compared to today, being able to work part time to pay his government-subsidized education and move on to work in a possibly stable job, its hard to say it that Joe had it much easier than Pyotr.