Survival of the Richest

Humanity comes from a long line of predator prey behavior within its own kind.

Primates are brutal. I watched the manipulative and abhorrent behavior of baboons (not directly related to us) as they used others' young as collateral and I was disgusted. "Humanity doesn't accept such behavior. It is counter productive. Only by working together and helping each other adapt do we truly become great as a species."

I was wrong.

There's actually still plenty of predator prey behavior within mankind. Scammers scam. Commercials lie. Banks put college kids in 10-30 years of indentured servitude (except for the rich ones, who pay off their loans so quickly they pretty much only pay what was owed). The banks... Oh the banks. They are the ultimate predator, preying on the weak with their smiles and promises.

A system that makes the unfortunate pay more and the fortunate pay less is broken. It works out for the banks and for those who make our laws (rich people), but it doesn't work out for the average recent college graduate, who may wish to start a business or invent some new lifesaving medicine but can't all because they owe the banks money. I figured since I was going to a state university that I was so smart and fiscally responsible. I thought that having a degree would make employers clamor over me (like I was promised over and over again). I thought it MATTERED. My very smart sister-in-law never got a chance to complete college, much to her dismay, and so 2005 on she was working. She's worked herself up to a position where she's in charge of others and making a reasonable wage. She paid off her year's worth of private college debt and is free.

She is working right now. I am not. Employers quickly pass me up for someone with "experience", even within my own field of study. No one equates my degree with $30,000 worth of experience, which is an entire year's worth of salary in my field. I am an indentured servant to a bank and I cannot declare bankruptcy as it is government loans, unlike those who were tricked by private credit card companies. I was tricked just as horribly, but I have no way out. Banks are like baboons, holding our youth hostage for their own benefit.

I don't pray, but right now I'm just going to make a general plea. Please publish me. Buy my work. I am a talented and extremely passionate mad genius who has big ideas for this mad mad world.

The American Dream does not apply to the poor, only the lucky.

Fortunately for the rich, most of the poor still believe in the fallacy, because we all still have the right to protest, and we would if only the lies didn't run so deep.

When I finally make it, I'm going to help others (perhaps like that 20 under 20 guy). Hell, I help people now and I have nothing. I am a beautiful human being with big beautiful dreams, and no amount of debt will stop me.