Dangerously close to “us versus them”
I have an income, a college education, and no debt.
In order to say this today, I had to ignore conventional channels, bypass gatekeepers, and always be willing to walk away from ‘money on the table.’
The ‘social contract’ we sold ourselves into remains unfulfilled; we trusted, we obeyed, we jumped through the hoops, and played the game. Maybe we even knew these rules were set by the top 1%. We had faith in our fellow humans to see us as fellow humans too.
What matters is not the false hope of one day having our own mega-yacht. How about simply waking up in the middle of the night and not wondering who owns you for the next 30 years plus inescapable compound interest?
What matters is human dignity.
I recognize that even a single decision made differently — by myself or another — and that very first sentence at the top would be yet another unlikely fantasy. You don’t have to get shafted to see what’s going on, but it helps in order to see through the false haze of semi-“success.”
I, too, am the 99%.
