Translation of Kassenzettel

It seems a little bit like a pot in which you want to be happy and rich and enjoy your luck not caring about others. For example, the population is diminishing (or it was so during the last decade).
We begin to talk about 'we' and 'they', which makes us partly discriminating. As a whole, I guess that all of us have some predispositions, but the difference is, that some know how to supress it.
As usually, we had problems with our hotel. At midnight we checked in to our place, and once seeing the room, my wife decided that she would not sleep there. She was right, it was a place with no atmosphere.