LOL.....buying weapons from Xur is the only "earning" you can do in this game as earning implies a guaranteed reward for performing a specific action. In this case you "earn" strange coins largely by completing the weekly. Then you save those coins and spend them on things you can buy with them....in this case an exotic weapon or armor. If you consider RNG as being "earned' then do you consider winning the lottery also "earning"? In other words would you say "Hey guys guess what I just earned the lottery!"? Or would you say "Hey guys guess what I just won the lottery!". Also your logic against what I said above.......um well you destroyed your own argument since there are many people who received an exotic weapon from a blue engram dropped by a lvl 4 dreg. Your logic says they "earned" their weapon meanwhile you stated that when completing the weekly you "could have possibly been carried through the weekly". Therefore since this is a possibility (however unlikely) you did not earn your strange coins. By your logic you probably didn't "earn" your copy of destiny. Did you purchase it with your own money or did you find the money lying on the ground to purchase it. If you found the money lying on the ground then by your logic you earned your copy of Destiny....however if you worked a full time job and saved money from that job to purchase destiny then you didn't earn destiny...therefore your copy of destiny should come with locked content that you cannot use simply because you took the "easy way out" and bought the game with money from your job. TLDR: You are an idiot. Please go back to school and learn about basic economics so that you can understand the conceptual difference between "earn" and "random luck".