Friday, January 2, 2009

Corporate Culture's opinion of a good and meaningful life

Corporate Culture gives us very few lifestyles to chose from and rigid paths to follow in those lifestyles.  For example the "Rags to Riches" lifestyle demands that the person is a minority, and lives in a bad neighborhood.  This person has to have some sort of talent like playing basketball or rapping.  This person has gang affiliations, gets involved with drugs or gets assaulted or any combination of these.  They then beat out the competition and become celebrities and have their own movies and documentaries etc.  What they don't tell you is that everyone is after that dream and there's only a few spots and everyone thinks they're the best of the best.
Aside from that dream there's only a few others, there's the common one which everyone knows, graduate high school, go to college, get a job, get married, have kids, get old, retire and die which most of America does.  Then there's the super rich people who inherit money and make even more money "Riches to more Riches" like Donald Trump did.  Either way all of these dreams involve money, working for it from poverty, making money from money, or just having enough to get by we all need, use and want money and our lives have to revolve around it.       

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