Let's be honest: you'll NEVER win the lottery. On the other hand, chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job for the rest of your life. That's because you were, in all likelihood, born in to the wrong social class. Face it - you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!
As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, or good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the Yellow Pages to list all of the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe in all of those silly fairy tales about "justice, equal opportunity, and the value of hard work in
Of course, in a hierarchical social system life ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us, and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower on the social ladder you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even the lowly dishwasher and garbage man can find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for all of those migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people!
Always remember that if everyone were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all of the those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. No one would be available to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly there would be no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived the full, creative, and satisfying lives we have. So please, by all means, keep up the great work!
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break the mold".
Naturally, we try to play you commoners off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers vs. low-waged, unionized vs. non-unionized, Black vs. White vs. Mexican vs. Asian, male vs. female, Christian vs....well, everyone else! We continually push your wages down by invoking high-falutin' things like "foreign competition", "the law of supply and demand in the labor market", "national security", "the federal deficit", or whatever other nonsense we can think of.
We will gladly throw you in the scrap heap of you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections". Luckily, you have no clue what a real democracy or a real election looks like, and you beat your collective chests and pronounce the system we've built for you as the worlds' best. Happily, you haven't a clue as to what we're really doing; instead, you blame "terrorists", "jews", "China", "the devil", "aliens", "planetary mis-alignments", "welfare queens", "immigrants", and countless other phantoms for your troubled situation.
We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace "work ethic", even though most of the jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your emotional, physical, and spiritual health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about that kind of work, but we're sure glad you do!
Of course, your life could be different. Society could intelligently be organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our total domination of your lives. But you don't know that. In fact, it is our greatest achievement that you can't even imagine that another way of life is even possible! And that is the most amazing thing about our system: completely robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, and your ability to think and act for yourself and your own best interest.
So, we'd truly like to thank you, from the bottom of our black hearts. Your loyal and blind sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury! Thank you so much for knowing your place...without even knowing it!
"He who hath the gold, makes the rules."
"Fuck You. Pay Me."
