It is a wonderful thing to live in America. We are free! Free to rise above
the economic status of our parents, to get an education, and to be whatever we want to
be. From birth we are promised the right to pursue happiness (i.e. money). Our parents
try to provide us with opportunities that they did not have so that we can be happier (i.e.
Children go to school to get the skills that they will need to join the adult world, the
working world. Work is the foundation of America. Everyone does it. Those who don't
Work is mandatory and necessary. If you want to eat, you must work. We cannot
escape it so we make it sound nicer than it actually is. Little children are told that they can
be whatever they want when they grow up as long as they work hard. They can choose a
job that they like, a job that is interesting, challenging and fun.
Unfortunately none of that is true. We are not all born financially or intellectually
equal. We are not all born to good parents. Little Bobby the crack baby was born to a
bitter teenage dropout who will beat him until he is bigger than her. She will never
encourage him to get schooling beyond the ninth grade. She will never teach him that
there is more to life than getting drunk in their small logging town. Bobby was simply not
born with the same opportunities as Suzy, a healthy child born to a responsible, loving
mother who started a college fund right away and will support and encourage her
daughter. Bobby simply had too much to overcome.
The concept of working, which is selling your time and effort, is so ingrained into
American culture and society that we rarely, if ever, question it. "Work" is quite simply a
method of training people to relinquish their freedom and submit to hierarchy.
"Anyone who says these people [Americans] are "free
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