[Dan27297]

Way back in the ages, royalty and nobility were considered far above the common people. They felt this was the divine order of things. In the gilded age of the 1800s and 1900s, those who got ahead were considered genetically superior (social Darwinism). Today, those who make megabucks while the average working stiff slaves his days away are considered ‘innovators’ who went out and took charge and got a piece of the pie. They are seen as a special breed. Naturally, because of this myth, the masses try to eminate them. Everyone, so they say, dreams of starting up a dotcom, doing the IPO, and then driving their brand new Aston Martin on the autobahn by next tuesday. However, not only is material ambition of far less substance than it is made out to be, but the ‘commoner’ is left in the dust. I have a friend who hobbles around on a leg that was broken years ago, because he couldn’t afford proper care for it. I’ve seen people get plowed over by trucks and then have to go 50 miles south to downtown L.A. and wait several hours in the at the county hospital to get a 3rd rate patch-up job. Homeless people can’t get benefits because they don’t have an address, excluding food stamps. Welfare moms have to stay on it because if they go to work they can’t afford daycare, and they’d be even worse off financially. The minimum wage is unliveable. Immigrants who are exploited by the millions will get the boot if they even try to organize. People complain about illegal immigration, but if you kick them out, much of the United States economy will flop. The list goes on and on. But that’s just the way of man. Selfishness, material values over spiritual and community values, and a ‘me first, then maybe you’ attitude. Only the end of the world can entirely cause man’s flaws to cease.

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Name : Dan27297, Gender : M, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : L.A. area, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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