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You grew up knowing you would work, for your dream job you made a search, then went to school and took the tests, burned the oil to be the best. You interned for experience, and developed good business sense, got a good job with a big firm, then through toil you quickly learned how to bring service to the mass, and how to solve their problems fast, the hard work brought you lots of praise, with corresponding bumps in pay. You took a chance, went on your own, started your own shop from your home, set your hours, were your own boss, built it all up through free-time lost. But all the effort brought the join, the upper middle-class you joined, through tenacity, grit and nerve… seven figures going forward. Wait--someone is now in office, makes promises with words practiced, offers his voter much free stuff, declares that you have ‘had enough.’ Your own success, it’s just not fair when others live on in despair, sure, they may have made bad choices, but he wins votes with their voices. Besides, don’t your care of the poor? Don’t you know what they have endured? We can’t rely on charity, you might help the wrong folks, you see. Who care if you mortgaged your house? We have to have ‘compassion’ now. Who cares if things are yours by right? And if new taxes make things tight. Who cares if you must close your doors because they just keep taking more? Don’t you know what professors say? You ‘exploit’ workers anyway! You know that you don’t ‘give them jobs,’ you ‘steal’ from them, you take and rob, they’d rather those jobs not exist then thank a ‘damn capitalist.’ Don’t you know that you’re ‘all that’s wrong,’ it’s ‘fascist’ to work hard and long, it’s ‘immoral,’ and should be spurned, the thought that you should keep what’s earned. You think your work gives you a claim, so bourgeoisie…that’s quite insane, you could do your work just as well earning no more than someone else. “It’s not worth it,”you do announce, then you’re a monster, and they pounce, take all the wealth you did create, say it’s for ‘the good of the state.’ To want it back would be greedy, they need the cash for ‘the needy.’ Then you see them drive fancy cars… they’re only thieves with good P.R.
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